Hard drives have come a long way over the past six decades. The first hard drives were the size of refrigerators; they had record-sized platters capable of carrying a pitiful five megabytes of data. Seagate recently unveiled its upcoming twelve-terabyte…
We’ve seen many a crashed hard drive come from dropped laptops. It just comes with the territory—a portable device with a small data storage device inside it, filled with sensitive moving parts. You drop it—it breaks (usually). What a relief…
“Why Is My Computer Beeping?” A (Brief) Look At Computer Beep Codes We tend to associate beeping with electronics. Even your computer will beep—but when it’s coming from your computer or your computer’s hard drive (external or internal), it’s not…
When you turn on your PC, you expect to see the Windows startup screen shortly afterward, followed by your familiar Windows login screen. You don’t expect to encounter a boot error instead—but when it happens, it happens. In this data…
Updated: 1/17/2019 What do you do with a dead hard drive? You can use it as a paperweight, a doorstopper, or a bookend. You can even make it into a clock. But before you do any of those things, you should…
The client in this HP data recovery case study came to us for our Toshiba hard drive repair services. The Toshiba hard drive inside their HP Pavilion laptop had gone kaput, producing a Windows boot error message. Their BIOS informed…
When a hard drive comes to our data recovery lab here at Gillware after spending some time in another data recovery company’s lab, it’s usually for one of two reasons. Commonly, the other data recovery company had charged the drive’s owner an…
