Spilled Water on Laptop – What’s At Risk? A glass of water, juice, tea, or anything else can wreak havoc on your laptop computer’s keyboard. Spilling water on laptop computers can mean that water seeps through the keyboard and get…
The client in this case had been storing Oracle VDI files on their computer’s internal Western Digital hard drive. A VDI file, or “virtual disk image”, contains the contents of an entire “virtual” hard drive inside a single large file.…
The client in this flood damaged hard drive recovery case sent us a two-drive RAID-1 array that had been submerged in floodwater during this year’s horrific flooding in Louisiana. RAID-1 is commonly used as a backup system, because both hard…
Special thanks to Ron Dennison for providing his insights in hard drive failure analysis for both this blog post and our handling guide for water damaged HDDs. In our data recovery lab at Gillware, we’re no strangers to water damage. When we…
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,…
Originally posted on 5/20/2016, and updated on 6 This camcorder data recovery case has been completed. Recovery Type: Camcorder (Hard Drive)Drive Capacity: 80GBManufacturer: ToshibaModel Number: MK8034GAL HDD1818 H ZK01Main Symptom: Fire and water damageType of Data Recovered: VideosGillware Data Recovery Case Rating: 4 Fire Damaged Camcorder Recovery…
Most of the smells at Gillware come from the soldering bench or the kitchen. But the hard drives sent to us from Alaska by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service alerted many noses with their distinctive odor: the loud scent…
