Figure it's gone but thought I'd ask

[Neutroaio]

Hopefully a quick question, bought a 100 bit coins in one lump years ago and have since lost the wallet HDD failure.
Don't think you can but was wondering if i could find my transaction in the ledger is there any way to get it back?
From what I understand if you lose the wallet without a backup it's gone am I right?

[majorX]

Hopefully a quick question, bought a 100 bit coins in one lump years ago and have since lost the wallet HDD failure.
Don't think you can but was wondering if i could find my transaction in the ledger is there any way to get it back?
From what I understand if you lose the wallet without a backup it's gone am I right?

Its gone, unless you still have the broken HDD.

[AmDD]

Yup, sorry to say, but its gone.

[pokerjet]

yes, without the hard drive, the odds ever seeing them back are worse than winning the Mega Millions lotto in the USA tonight.

[nlsx]

Next time, encrypt the wallet, throw it in a truecrypt volume, and put it up on dropbox.

[watsonic]

are you able to recover the HDD? you could send it to a specialist for a diagnosis.

[geekeh]

If you still have the dead hard drive, it would more than likely be worth the cost of sending it to a specialist data recovery firm. It'd be costly but not compared to the value of those coins.

[Cryddit]

+1 on data recovery professionals. Take that drive to a recovery firm and pay them what they charge.

100 Bitcoins is a lot of money now; it is totally worth it to have these guys open up a busted drive, take out the actual disk, and read it directly with a magnetic probe.  Even if the HDD is crashed, you can get your coins back provided it didn't crash in the same sector as that file. 

[dwdoc]

The way the question was posed it sounds like that HDD is long gone along with the stashosi (stash of satoshis).

[geekeh]

The way the question was posed it sounds like that HDD is long gone along with the stash.

Yeah it does sound like that's the case, but you never know, I keep tons of old crap lying around, I'm terrible for it.

The other thing to suggest, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe that any backup of that wallet.dat file would work right? even if it was one made before the coins were purchased, so if the OP ever backed it up, before the disk died, maybe to reinstall windows or something, if you could dig out the file it would have the private key and it would find the coins.

[Neutroaio]

Thanks for the info.
Yeah the HDD is long gone I'm afraid this was about 6-7 years ago. Figured there was no hope just thought I would ask on the off chance.
The best bit is the more the currency becomes worth as time goes by the more I'll be able to kick myself, but that's hindsight eh.

[Zettex]

Next time, encrypt the wallet, throw it in a truecrypt volume, and put it up on dropbox.

Good suggestion, I will start doing that now