First and foremost: I am a tad bit concerned that this might fit better in the off-topic section. But I can assure you that I am being quite serious here.

As so many others, I have lost, misplaced or tossed my mnemonic seed.

I solo-mined bitcoin on my CPU in the year of 2009.

I am confident that I have hit/produced at least one block. Possibly more, but one would suffice for a thorough investigation into every possible option of retrieval.

Sadly I made a backup of the "nameofmywallet".wallet and not the actual wallet.dat, before hammering a nine inch nail through that olden HDD.

Thank you Microsoft for having introduced hidden files. And thank me for being so retarded.

A year ago, I gave up looking for that small slit of paper. And have since then taken a far greater interest in the cryptosphere at large.

I does haunt me though, thinking about how I could be retiring on some island right now.

Then came this thought 

But with hypnosis not being cheap, and me not having that fortune.

I would like to ask anyone with any kind of experience in this field, to chip in.

Before I go ahead an ruin myself some more.. .