bye

[hathmill]

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

[wopwop]

bitcoin doesn't care

[niktitan132]

Sorry for you lost. 

[mprep]

This perfectly describes how I feel:

[Patzek]

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.

[Morbid]

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

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.

[freet0pian]

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

[Sophokles]

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.

[proudhon]

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

[LiteCoinGuy]

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

[Alty]

I feel genuinely sorry for you!

Try to get that recovered.

[Mjbmonetarymetals]

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

[freethink2013]

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)

[rausvi15]

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

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

[GigaCoin]

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.

[Mjbmonetarymetals]

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

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  

[deepceleron]

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

[silverback]

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

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

[Kluge]

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

[rogue13]

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?