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But when I install electrum and choose recover wallet. If I choose 1-factor and recover by seed, I am unable to open the program afterwards. (it just loads and then stops doing anything when I try to open)
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It sounds to me like you were able to restore your wallet, but the wallet hangs when generating addresses or syncing... Altough there's no guarantee you've used the correct seed tough... Since the wallet hangs before you could confirm anything.
Are you sure you waited long enough, installed an electrum version that is more or less the same as your old version, your OS is ok,... ?
All in all, it's good advice to stop using the harddisk just in case you need to recover the files tough!