Seagate Drive Repair Case Study: Hard Drive BeepingDrive Model: Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD ST500LM000Drive Capacity: 500 GBOperating System: WindowsSituation: Client updated the BIOS on Dell E6500 series laptop and afterward, the system would no longer boot. The client’s inaccessible hard…
Corrupted video files should be treated exactly like any other corrupt file. Users need to assess the impact of losing access to the video file and determine whether it’s worthwhile to attempt to fix corrupted video files. It’s possible to…
Gillware’s technicians are experts in Data Recovery and we have been in business since 2004. We have some of the very best data scientists and data experts in-house, and many of the team have been with us since the very…
There is only one scenario where it makes sense to rebuild a volume: The logical state of the union is good. The volume mounts, the system boots great, none of the data is corrupted – but one physical member disk…
Is RAID Still Used? There are many types of RAID configurations available. Some of the most popular are RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10. RAID0 is sometimes called disk striping, which requires two or more hard drives and is…
You will see the “no volume is configured” message in a number of different scenarios; the most common is when you first create your storage volumes using the RAID controller. “No volume” can mean that you have a vanilla system,…
Mac OS error codes are usually few and far between. The average Mac user typically has a very reliable experience with their device; however, when things do go wrong with a Mac (and they sometimes do), they can break quite…
StorageCraft is a US company owned by Arcserve focusing on delivering enterprise-grade data file protection, data management, and disaster recovery solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Due to the popularity of these file recovery solutions, Gillware’s experts are skilled in…
“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” That’s Murphy’s Law. How we deal with the fallout afterwards is what determines whether Murphy’s Law works for us or against us. In my first blog post, I reflected on the overlap and…
The Data Recovery Experts at Gillware regularly see Maxtor hard drives in the data lab, not because they are unreliable, but because they have been around for nearly 40 years. The symptoms we see vary significantly, but we can witness…
VHD files / VHDX file repair is a custom data recovery service offered by Gillware. Our virtualization experts have extensive experience recovering all sorts of data problems with Microsoft Hypervisors, and in particular, VHDX files. What do you do when…
VMDK file repair is a custom data recovery service offered by Gillware. Our virtualization data recovery experts have extensive experience recovering all sorts of data problems with VMware Hypervisors, and in particular, VMDK files. What do you do when a…
