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.
USB Not Recognized?
[vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The client in this data recovery case study had a USB thumb drive that no longer did anything when they plugged it in. The thumb drive was well and truly dead. Unfortunately, the client had been using…
USB Flash Drive Showing Windows Error Code 43
USB Drive Repair – What Does “Error Code 43” Mean? When this client plugged their USB flash drive into their computer, they received a message telling them that their USB device had malfunctioned. The client opened the Device Manager to…
USB Data Recovery Case Study: A Cautionary Tale
USB Data Recovery: USB Not Recognized When you too hastily eject your USB flash drive and your PC won’t recognize it anymore, which part of the drive has failed? Mechanically, your flash drive is still fine. The USB plug itself…
False Capacity Flash Drives
A few weeks ago, a case came through Gillware’s doors related to a flash drive that was reading as 64GB in size, and yet would only save up to 8GB of data. After greater than 8GB had been written to the…
Kingston DataTraveler DTSE9 monolith not detected
Recovery Type: Monolithic USB flash driveDevice Capacity: 8GBDevice Manufacturer: KingstonModel Name: DataTravelerModel Number: DTSE9Main Symptom: UnresponsiveType of Data: Photos and DocumentsData Recovery Grade: 10 Chip Information:Manufacturer: ToshibaID: THNU3EN00PL07 As capacities go up and costs go down for USB flash drives, people are using them to store more and more data.…
How the Monolith Changed the USB Flash Drive Data Recovery Game
The one thing USB flash drive recovery had going for it was easy direct access to the underlying storage medium. Inside the casing of that USB thumb drive or camera card is an industry-standard NAND flash memory chip. Whereas hard disk platters can…