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Title: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: RedHoops on April 29, 2013, 11:34:42 AM ...and to show how much I don't know about computers, how is a bit coin wallet retrievable in the event of a hard drive melt down? ???
Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: Tirapon on April 29, 2013, 11:35:46 AM Make a backup of your wallet.dat. You can find where its located using google.
Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: Tirapon on April 29, 2013, 11:38:37 AM Or just follow this link:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: phatsphere on April 29, 2013, 11:48:50 AM if it is really molten, no chance. otherwise it depends if it still runs and just the filesystem is broken (easier case) or the chips/heads are broken. in any case, there are companies dealing with that. depends on how much they cost vs. the value of the lost bitcoins.
Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: Gabi on April 29, 2013, 11:56:49 AM Better you backuped your wallet, otherwise our coins will just suddenly be a bit more valuable :D
Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: franky1 on April 29, 2013, 02:07:33 PM get a copy of your private keys and store them separately aswell.
that way you have paper back up, digital backup aswell as the live wallet being used Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: grue on April 29, 2013, 02:10:16 PM if you have it encrypted, just have it backed up at a cloud storage service (like dropbox)
Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: namecoinwallet on April 29, 2013, 04:12:31 PM Back up everything in advance.
Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: 556j on April 29, 2013, 04:15:16 PM Copy your wallet.dat, encrypt the wallet with truecrypt, then email yourself the encrypted file to your gmail acount and a waala cloud storage account.
Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: Icon on April 30, 2013, 12:24:59 AM Copy your wallet.dat, encrypt the wallet with truecrypt, then email yourself the encrypted file to your gmail acount and a waala cloud storage account. +1 Title: Re: If my hard drive crashes... Post by: RedHoops on April 30, 2013, 01:45:32 AM Thank you all for the help. I appreciate it.
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