Gillware is one of the foremost experts in the industry, with world-class facilities and an unrivaled knowledge base. Gillware’s experts assist in file recovery from all types of devices, from hard disk drives and USB thumb drives to SSDs and multi-disk RAID servers.
Read on for all of the blog posts with the “file recovery” tag. These posts will give you an insight as to what kind of work goes into retrieving your data, regardless of your situation, and show you how hard our engineers work to reunite you with your important data, whether it’s family photos or important business documents.
This client brought their hard drive to us after being met with the “Gray Screen of Death.” The failed Hitachi hard drive pulled from their Macbook Pro was fully encrypted. Encryption can greatly complicate the file recovery process. Our FileVault 2 data recovery efforts required lengthy procedures…
Before it even arrived we knew this Raptor hard drive repair case was going to be incredibly difficult. This was an unusual data recovery case for our cleanroom engineers. This Western Digital Raptor X hard drive had already been opened…
RAID 5: Overview A RAID array connects two or more hard drives together to make what is essentially a single giant hard drive. RAID arrays offer greater storage capacity, protection against data loss from individual drive failure, increased efficiency, or some combination…
This failed NAS device came to us from a nearby small business located in Fond du Lac. Their Synology DiskStation DS 1512+ NAS device had failed after a power surge. Inside their DiskStation was a 5-drive RAID-5 array. This NAS…
Here at Gillware, it isn’t uncommon to see a client come to us with a clicking Seagate hard drive filled with family photos and other files they need us to recover for them. Many people back up all of their critical data—and…
This client had two 500 gigabyte Western Digital WD5003ABYX-01WERA1 hard drives linked together in a RAID-1 array. Important database files had been erased from the array, and the client needed our deleted file recovery services. A RAID is a “redundant…
The client in this peculiar RAID-5 server recovery case had pulled three 72-gigabyte SCSI hard drives (two Fujitsu, and one Maxtor) from their RAID-5 server. Some kind of fluid had been dumped on the server box containing the client’s drives. At first,…
