bye

[WEB slicer]

i friend of mine had his HD fail and somebody on this forum helped him recover his coins. not 100% sure who it was but i think it was the guy who makes those shiny BTC coins.

[tvbcof]

i friend of mine had his HD fail and somebody on this forum helped him recover his coins. not 100% sure who it was but i think it was the guy who makes those shiny BTC coins.

I remember ~sipa helping recover a badly corrupt database (wallet) one time.  That may or may not be the incident you are describing.  ~sipa is, or at one time was, probably the primary coder of Bitcoin.  I've not tracked commits for a long time, but that was what it appeared to me to be the case when I did.

[freethink2013]

Okay, he said bye and hasn't logged in since, you can quit bumping this thread.

point taken. cheers

[Trance104]

loses 3 bitcoins

/wrists

[goxed]

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

I have swapped PROMs on HDD to make them work with a new board. Pretty easy if you have the right board.

[miken123]

Maybe he's evading taxes and actually sold them for cash. Now he's created an alibi in case the govt comes asking for gains taxes later he can say 'crashed the he so I lost them!'  No one is that silly not to try to save the hd

[bbit]

now that totally sucks! 

[nanobtc]

I do data recovery, and really 99% of the time it is a PC with a single hard drive, and Windows is simply brain-dead. The desired data is usually there.

A quick and easy, non-writing test is to boot to a Linux liveCD, and access the hard drive that way.

[b!z]

It's not too late. You can still buy more BTC

[Relian]

Guys, he haven't posted a single reply after his first topic start.

[b!z]

Guys, he haven't posted a single reply after his first topic start.

It's probably safe to assume he's gone for good then.