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Lost my wallet. Everything gone. Harddisk crash and no backup. Lesson learned, but thats it for me. Good bye bitcoin :(

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Sorry for you lost.  :(

This perfectly describes how I feel:

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fucks-given-0.jpg

why don't you try to recover it?

even if not by yourself, there're experts out there who might be able to recover it.

There're many ways to recover stuff from failed hdd's.

there are companies that can save hdd data. it could be a motor or a head that is broken. the content might still be there.

What's wrong with you people insulting him? You truly are pathetic excuses for human beings.

Sorry for your loss. How many coins were on it? Keep the hard drive.  Recovery by a specialist might be profitable,  if not now, probably later,  as the coin value rises even more.

Seriously, OP, there are services that can help you.  What have you tried so far.

you could go to a professional service and try to recover it.

I feel genuinely sorry for you!

Try to get that recovered.

That's a disaster, really sorry to hear about that...... Hope there's a chance to recover wallet somehow.

I've had loads of hd's fail over the years and I've got back 80-90% of the data everytime. Seek a pro (not me i'm not interested)

Hey you can still make HD recovery...!
send me HD and i will try to recover wallet.dat...

Like many stated here, you still have hope i strongly suggest taking it to a professional recovery service especially if it's a large amount. I worked as a Tech for a while and i've seen wonders with hard drive data recovery.

This could be Bitcoiners that sell out make a good profit see price continue to rise, somewhere after anger and denial is roaming the forum full of bitter small minded sarcasm and regrets. Might be wrong of course  ;D

High end data recovery companies are very good at doing what they do, here's a presentation where some advanced techniques such as replacing the disk stack in to a new drive and replacing boards while swapping proms are described. If you are in to the thousands of dollars lost, it is something to consider.

(sorry, it's part one of six)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-D1nJcv0k

How much did you lose? There's a thread some place keeping track of all btc that have been lost.

Even if the hard drive is physically in pieces, it isn't necessarily impossible to recover the wallet.

If you had more than 1 BTC, I'd invest money in a reputable data recovery company like others are suggesting. They will go as far as transplanting the platters into an identical working hard drive to recover the data, but mind you this isn't cheap. Depending on how bricked the hard drive is will influence the cost of recovery and whether or not recovering your wallet is worth it for you.

If its less than 1 BTC, you might try tricks such as the freezer method to see if you can revive the drive long enough to pull the wallet. Assuming the failure is hardware related and not partition corruption.

One word of warning, if the amount is significant, don't risk any diy methods or unreputable recovery services as they can destroy the data in the process.

What kind of noise does the drive make when it is turned on?

This is very generous, and you should take him up on it. What do you have to lose?

Try the program recuva. If it still can by scanned and didn't do to much with it then you can save it. But really 100% broke then you need something more professional.

I agree and I'll bet the wallet can be recovered, hope the OP comes back to at least see the replies.

The top experts recovered 99% of the data off the Challenger HD after the explosion, fall the sky, and sinking to the bottom of the ocean. I can't imagine your hard drive being in worse shape than that.

Even if it isn't economical to recover it now. Just save your HD. Years from now, the best experts will be willing to recover it for a small portion.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9083718/Shuttle_i_Columbia_s_i_hard_drive_data_recovered_from_crash_site_ (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9083718/Shuttle_i_Columbia_s_i_hard_drive_data_recovered_from_crash_site_)

PMed OP to come back to this topic and read about the recovery options.

How much ฿? A lot can be done if significant value lost. Don't write to drive.

I think he meant he's leaving the site too, not just Bitcoin. I doubt he'll see any of the PMs.

Sorry for you lost

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did you try a recovery service?  cost you like $1200.  just a thought.

Wow that really sucks.  Man, need to store your bitcoins in other places.  I sent an encrypted wallet to 2 of my email addresses as an attachment.  Is that enough safety guys?  Just curious of what everyone thinks of that option?

I don't feel sorry for the OP.  Why should we?  Well maybe just a little bit but still, he got into bitcoin and didn't read up about it.  People have lost their passwords or forgotten them, those are the sad ones.  But a hard drive failure without a backup..  Poo-hooo.  Always make a backup of important data you want to keep.  Also if the op has no clue about data recovery, he could be keeping track of this thread in hopes of people with solutions to provide him with which has already happened.

I feel like this is more of a troll post.  He's a full member with 186 posts since July 04, 2012, 08:09:42 PM.  He should know a little more than the just new beginner.  With the price of bitcoin as it is now and to say, bye just like that.  TROLLLLLLLLLLL...

that is pretty brutal man.  may i ask how many BTC you are out?

i guess its just a troll.

sorry to hear that.  how much btc in it?

if you have more than one bitcoin in there id say go for a recovery at a data recovering company

90% of the time I can pull data from a failed drive. It may take $500 and 100 hours of my time but I always pull the data.

How much did you have in that wallet?

It will determine the value of having it professionally recovered.

Okay, he said bye and hasn't logged in since, you can quit bumping this thread.

i friend of mine had his HD fail and somebody on this forum helped him recover his coins. not 100% sure who it was but i think it was the guy who makes those shiny BTC coins.

I remember ~sipa helping recover a badly corrupt database (wallet) one time.  That may or may not be the incident you are describing.  ~sipa is, or at one time was, probably the primary coder of Bitcoin.  I've not tracked commits for a long time, but that was what it appeared to me to be the case when I did.

point taken. cheers

loses 3 bitcoins

/wrists

I have swapped PROMs on HDD to make them work with a new board. Pretty easy if you have the right board.

Maybe he's evading taxes and actually sold them for cash. Now he's created an alibi in case the govt comes asking for gains taxes later he can say 'crashed the he so I lost them!'  No one is that silly not to try to save the hd

now that totally sucks!  :o

I do data recovery, and really 99% of the time it is a PC with a single hard drive, and Windows is simply brain-dead. The desired data is usually there.

A quick and easy, non-writing test is to boot to a Linux liveCD, and access the hard drive that way.

It's not too late. You can still buy more BTC ;)

Guys, he haven't posted a single reply after his first topic start.

It's probably safe to assume he's gone for good then.