Formated HDD //ANY SOLUTION TO RECOVER WALLET BACKUP

[bob123]

hello.my hdd crashed so i cant even open it.the last proggram testdisk looking good if u have similar problem.i also tried to contact hotmail support to find the deleted backup link but the recovered emails was till january 2018 and the delete date was previous.

I ll let u know if i recover it

So i take it you didn't follow my initial advice and clone the disk straight away? If you did follow my advice, you should have a clone image of your original disk, so it shouldn't matter if it crashed...

I really hope you created an image. mocacinno wasn't the only one who advised it:

Then, create an image (better: multiple) of the drive (e.g. using dd) and perform your recovery on the images (preferably on a fresh image for each try).

This is a necessary step. Simply because recovery softwares often mess up the data on your drive.

If you didn't do this and tried to perform recovery on your original drive, noone can help you if it now is completely broken.

If you can't access it know anymore, your chances are pretty much 0 of recovering anything now.

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[btctrader69]

i didnt make the image as u told me because the hdd was already crashed i open tha case and the plates looking good so ill try to check the head on hdd.
thnx for ur advises!

i ll let u know my future moves.

[mocacinno]

i didnt make the image as u told me because the hdd was already crashed i open tha case and the plates looking good so ill try to check the head on hdd.
thnx for ur advises!

i ll let u know my future moves.

I'm sorry to hear this, but did you really say you opened up the disk's case and look at the physical cases? I don't think that's a very good idear... Things like that should be done in a cleanroom by a technical person that is trained and has experience with dissasembling harddisks... Especially spinning disks are sensitive to a lot of environment factors...

And it's not because the physical plates look good that they're not corruped...

[cellard]

Yeah HDDs are very sensitive, cloning it in an image with one of these external tools that I think forensics use would have been more sane than opening it. Also don't move it around too much.
The wallet file is small so there is some hope that the sectors aren't overwritten but I wouldn't count on it.

Also the problem of hiring some data recovering company is that I would be too paranoid that they tell you "it's unrecoverable sorry" but in reality they actually managed to get your coins and in a few years you see them move.