Hi guys!

Been struggling for over a week trying to recover an old wallet.dat file. I bought some btc back in 2016, and before the entire blockchain was imported my PC ran out of memory. I was relatively young at the time and my knowledge of computers was scarse. So, naive as i was i simply tried to drag the entire folder over to my external HDD, but the entire thing crashed. I never figured it out, and forgot about it. I recently found my old hdd and saw that everything was still there. I also found my old wallet.dat file. I sent bitcoins to the bitcoin core wallet before it was ever finished, so i am hoping that it is still there. I tried downloading the bitcoin core once again to another external hdd, and it took a week to get to 89%. I trid to use the 'open wallet' function but then bitcoin core just crashed. In desperation i formated the hdd and tried again, and it still crashes immedeatily when i hover over the option. I then tried to use the pywallet, but i just cant seem to figure this out.

I am trying here in a last attempt of desperation to recover my btc. I really need a step by step guide i think to mange this. I really hope someone can help me, and if someone does i would be willing to share som of my btc in grattitude! I know these are just words but i really will. So yeah, looking forward to some educated advise on how to sort this out! Thank you in advance