Well, I had the wallet that should contain the BTC but he sent it to the send address instead of the receive address, so it's just lost as far as I know.

Okay, so I'm screwed.

Thanks anyway.

Thanks, all. As for de3mka, I thought that's what I did, but I'll see if I can look into that in more detail.

and MajorX, yeah. However, I understood nothing from the rest of your post.


EDIT:
HOLD MY HORSES. New discovery. It says my recieving address is different than the one he sent it to. did I just give him the wrong address? Was it never received? RAAAAH

I don't really understand this page... sorry. I hope you explain if I need to know it, but otherwise thanks anyway

But it was sent, right? where could it have gone? I didn't see any other history but it says there's no balance, and so does my wallet.

This is how I know: http://blockexplorer.com/address/124rng28u4iT7Uojjj9jL6pTpXsKCLGNnR
Is that trustworthy? I didn't see any sign of it being gone.

And when I ran it, it didn't show any transactions whatsoever.

Hey, this is my first post here, but I have a sort of burning question.

About a year ago, my brother gave me 0.05 BTC on a wallet on my computer. I completely forgot about it until I realized how much the value has soared recently. The thing was that my old computer broke and that's where my wallet was, but I had the whole hard drive put into an external and I still had all the files. I found the wallet with that same address that I know he sent it to, and it took ages to sync, but when it finished there was nothing in it. Is there any explanation as to how it could have disappeared?

Thanks for bothering to read and post.