Comments on: When it Does Not Compute: A Look at Logical Data Recovery

By: Power Outage Data Recovery: Western Digital AAKX | Gillware

Power Outage Data Recovery: Western Digital AAKX | Gillware — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:37:04 +0000

[…] recovery software can only recover data that has been lost due to logical failure, such as file deletion, accidental reformatting, or filesystem corruption. If the logical […]

By: Hard Drive Firmware Data Recovery: Seagate ST3750528AS

Hard Drive Firmware Data Recovery: Seagate ST3750528AS — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:28:08 +0000

[…] Whenever you connect a hard drive to your computer, your computer will look for the drive’s partition table and the boot sectors for each partition. Basically, it is looking for the hard drive’s floor plan so it can easily navigate the drive’s architecture. […]

By: Formatted SD Card Recovery Case: Crucial SD Memory Card

Formatted SD Card Recovery Case: Crucial SD Memory Card — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:58:28 +0000

[…] There are only a relative handful of sectors or cells on a data storage device that govern how its filesystem behaves. A partition table on the “front” of the device tells the reader how many partitions to […]

By: Accidental Reformat Data Recovery Study: Samsung Spinpoint

Accidental Reformat Data Recovery Study: Samsung Spinpoint — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:51:44 +0000

[…] this data recovery case, our client came to us with a logical matter. The client had a Samsung external hard drive formatted for use in their PC. When they had […]

By: Using Bitmap to Make Data Recovery More Efficient | Gillware

Using Bitmap to Make Data Recovery More Efficient | Gillware — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:18:38 +0000

[…] organizational structure the drive relied on to find your pictures, documents and other files. In a previous post, we took a general look at some of the organizational structure – or “meta data” – of a […]

By: Counting Bytes: Is My Hard Drive 320GB or 298GB? | Gillware Inc.

Counting Bytes: Is My Hard Drive 320GB or 298GB? | Gillware Inc. — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:00:55 +0000

[…] we recently wrote about logical data recoveries from hard drives and how they structure information, it seems like a good time to tackle a question our data recovery engineers are frequently […]

By: Kingston SSD Recovery Case Study: SSDNow V300 | Gillware Inc.

Kingston SSD Recovery Case Study: SSDNow V300 | Gillware Inc. — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:52:05 +0000

[…] couldn’t properly see the drive, and the BIOS could not select it as a boot device. An SSD with logical damage to its volume metadata is like a puzzle with a missing piece. Your computer can’t solve this […]

By: Toshiba Hard Drive Recovery Case Study: Logical Corruption | Gillware Inc

Toshiba Hard Drive Recovery Case Study: Logical Corruption | Gillware Inc — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:49:33 +0000

[…] this client’s Dell laptop couldn’t boot from their Toshiba hard drive. The drive had suffered a logical failure, rendering its contents invisible to the […]

By: RAID-1 Data Recovery Case Study: Seeing Double | Gillware Inc.

RAID-1 Data Recovery Case Study: Seeing Double | Gillware Inc. — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:36:22 +0000

[…] had suffered from a corrupt partition table. The partition table is one of the first links in the logical “chain” that allows your computer to find the files on your hard drive. When you plug in an external […]

By: Unallocated SSD Recovery Case Study: Liteon mSATA SSD | Gillware Inc.

Unallocated SSD Recovery Case Study: Liteon mSATA SSD | Gillware Inc. — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:32:04 +0000

[…] data recovery technicians found that this unallocated SSD did, in fact, have a logical issue. A chain of logic leads your computer to the data on any storage medium, be it a hard drive, SSD, […]