Category Flash Drive Data Recovery
USB flash drives provide a convenient solution to portable data storage. Gillware has extensive experience repairing damaged or corrupted flash drives.
Monolithic Flash Drives
Have you ever seen a flash drive where the USB connector was built-in to the rest of the device? That was (almost certainly) a monolithic flash drive. What is a Monolithic Flash Drive? Monolithic flash drives are simply a one-piece…
What is a Flash Drive?
A flash drive is mechanical equipment that you can use to store information from computers. Sometimes the flash drive is thought of as being similar to a hard drive. This is the part of your computer that stores all the…
Flash Memory Amnesia – Resurrecting Data through Direct Read of NAND Memory
“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 Request Could Not Be Performed Because of an I/O Device Error [Solved]
The I/O device error message is found predominantly on Windows 10 computers and laptops. Linux is not immune to this error either, and we have also seen it on virtual hypervisors such as VMware or Hyper-V. The”I/O device error” is…
Fix a Bent USB Drive/Broken USB Drive
The tiny thumb-sized USB flash drives/USB sticks we use to carrying data files around in our pockets are an odd mix of both fragility and resilience. These “thumb drives” or “jump drives” can survive perilous falls that would put any spinning disk…
How to Fix a Corrupted USB Drive on Windows 10
One of the most frequent requests our data recovery experts get is to fix or repair USB devices, such as a corrupted flash drive, pen drive, USB stick, or a USB attached hard disk drive. These handy portable storage devices…
More than Meets the Eye with USB Flash Drives
Our data recovery lab received an interesting case recently. On the surface, it looked like just an ordinary USB flash drive that had had its plug snapped off—the single most common form of data loss in USB flash drives. But…
Flash Drive Repair: Bent USB Drive
Updated 1/1/2022 The tiny thumb-sized USB flash drives we use to carry data around in our pockets are an odd mix of both fragility and resilience. These “thumb drives” or “jump drives” can survive perilous falls that would put any spinning disk…
Encrypted Data Recovery: The Case Study That Destroyed Humanity
Recently, a potential client contacted us, wondering if we could recover data from their Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3.0 USB drive. The USB flash drive itself was in perfect condition. However, the data was inaccessible because the device was password-protected…