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.
VDI Recovery: Hard Drive PCB Replacement
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.…
File Recovery: Recovering Deleted Files
The client in this file recovery case was having a day like any other. Their PC was running just fine. Nothing on their computer’s hard drive was out of place. When their antivirus software updated itself, they paid it no…
WD My Book Raw Hard Drive Recovery
The client in this case study had owned a Western Digital My Book external hard drive. The drive had worked fine, up until its USB port broke. The client removed the hard drive from its external enclosure to recover its…
VHD Recovery: Breaking the Boot Cycle
There are few things in this world more frustrating than to be caught in an endless reboot cycle. But while these cycles usually don’t indicate a hard drive failure and can be fixed, sometimes it’s just because your hard drive…
Hitachi Hard Drive Repair: A Tale of Two Drives
The client in this data recovery case came to us for our Hitachi hard drive repair services. In their computer they’d had a 500 GB Hitachi hard drive storing their data and a 16 GB SanDisk solid state drive doing some of…
EFS Recovery Case Study: No Bootable Device Found in BIOS
The client in this EFS data recovery case had a problem with their Liteon SSD. Their Windows laptop was not detecting the SSD as a valid boot device, telling them that no boot device could be found. They also could…
Hard Drive Reformat: A Modern Palimpsest
This client came to Gillware’s data recovery lab after an accidental reformat cut them off from their collection of family photos and documents. They had wanted to free up space on their drive, and thought they had their files backed…
Slow Hard Drive: My Book Data Recovery
The client in this Western Digital My Book data recovery case had a terminally slow hard drive. Eventually, after a few weeks of life in the slow lane, the client’s hard drive finally became inaccessible. Unfortunately, the client hadn’t managed…
Maxtor Data Recovery: Taking Control
The client in this data recovery case came to us after their Maxtor hard drive had bitten the dust. Their important photos and documents were stranded on the hard drive they’d pulled from their computer—which was now, to them at…