What Is Error Code 0xc00000e9? Error code 0xc00000e9 is a specific boot error code you might see if your PC is having difficulty booting up. Instead of the familiar Windows logo upon booting up your computer, you’ll see a blank…
The client in this FileVault data recovery case study ended up in hot water when they decided to encrypt the data on their Macbook. The FileVault encryption process started up as normal and started implementing its full-disk encryption. And that’s…
When your external hard drive breaks down, it’s up to specially-trained experts to safely and reliably make the necessary repairs. Portable external hard drives can fail due to being dropped, or just wear down from overuse. These hard drives may…
Portable external hard drives can fail and break down just like any other hard drive. In fact, due to their portability, they’re even more susceptible to being damaged by physical trauma, such as being dropped, than the drive inside your…
When your hard drive dies, there’s very little you can do on your own. You can find a lot of DIY data recovery tips on the Internet, most of which are almost guaranteed to do more harm than good. But…
There are a lot of different ways that hard drives can lose data, from physical issues in which the sensitive internal components break down to logical issues in which file system metadata becomes damaged or unreadable. Even disconnecting an external…
Hard drives can lose data in a lot of different ways. Any number of physical issues can break down the drive’s sensitive internal components. Logical issues can render file system metadata damaged or unreadable. Even something as simple as disconnecting…
Hard drives have come a long way from the fridge-sized monstrosities of the 1950s. They’re not just smaller. They pack orders of magnitude more data than the five-megabyte platters in the earliest hard drives could as well. Their tiny size…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here at Gillware, we see a lot of failed hard disk drives—about two dozen every day, on average. These hard drives come to us from customers of all sorts. We see everyone from home users to small business owners to…
Hard disk drives are really incredible inventions when you think about how much data they cram into such a small space (although that alone doesn’t seem too impressive now that we have solid state drives). The fact that a bunch…
