Will Ascenzo
Will is the lead blogger, copywriter, and copy editor for Gillware Data Recovery and Digital Forensics, and a staunch advocate against the abuse of innocent semicolons.
RAID Recovery Case Study: RAID 5 Failure and Reconstruction
How RAID Reconstruction Works in RAID-5 RAID-5 is one of the most popular forms of RAID, and it’s not hard to see why. When you combine three or more hard drives into a RAID 5 array, you get three benefits.…
HP ProLiant Data Recovery Case Study: Yellow Means Caution
HP ProLiant Data Recovery Case Study: Yellow Means Caution Server Model: HP Proilant DL360 G5 Server RAID Level: RAID-5 Drive Model: Seagate Savvio 10K.5 9TE066-150 Total Capacity: 600 GB Operating System: Windows Server 2008 Situation: Yellow status lights for all…
NAS Device Drive Prompts for Reformat
This client brought their Western Digital My Cloud to the NAS recovery experts at Gillware when the device cut them off from their data. They’d been using the personal NAS device to store their family photos and videos… until, that…
Hard Drive Crash: Was Windows 10 to Blame?
Earlier in 2016, Microsoft triggered waves of complaints after seemingly luring Windows 7 and 8 users into upgrading to Windows 10. The upgrade popups Microsoft had been using to pester users had been becoming increasingly deceptive, making it harder to…
RAID Partition Recovery Case: Drobo – Invalid Partition Table
The client in this data recovery case came to us when their Drobo unit suddenly showed up as blank on their Windows PC. Drobo units, designed by Data Robotics, combine multiple hard disk drives into single massive storage volumes, but…
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…
HP Data Recovery: Boot Selection Failed
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…
My Book Live Data Recovery Case Study: Inaccessible NAS Device
In this data recovery case, our client had a Western Digital network-attached storage device. A network-attached storage device, or NAS, is accessible not via a USB cable, but rather by an ethernet cable. The device plugs directly into the user’s…
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…