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.
Damaged Hard Drive Recovery: A Magnetic Personality?
Our client in this data recovery case came to us with a dying hard drive. They had taken the external hard drive, which they’d used to store family photos and videos, to a local computer repair shop first. There, the…
How to Fix an External Hard Drive
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…
How to Recover Data From an External Hard Drive
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…
How to Recover Data From a Dead Hard Drive
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…
Raw Partition Recovery and Uninitialized Disks
When a hard drive suddenly shows up as “RAW disk format” or becomes “raw” or “uninitialized” due to some form of failure, it can take careful work by data recovery experts to retrieve the lost data from the drive. At…
Recover Lost Files With Gillware
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…
Recover Hard Drive Data With Gillware
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…
How to Fix a Hard Drive… The Gillware Way
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…
Hard Drive Failure Symptoms: Read All About Them on the ACRBO Blog
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…