Cryptocurrency cold storage wallets retrieveable after computer hard drive corru

[vapourminer]

My advice: keep the list of coins, keep the drive, and store it safely. If the coins are ever worth enough in the future, you can try (expensive) data recovery.

Additionally at least cover your hard drive with anti-static bag (usually electrostatic bag or electrostatic clamshell) and store it somewhere dry, otherwise probability your data could be recovered will be decreased significantly.

if no antistatic bag is available you can use aluminum foil and wrap the drive in it.

basically you want to protect the drives electronics from static charges.

[Thirdspace]

No one will know how to answer your question concern where you should look for in other to get the private keys or the seeds of the wallet you used when you barely mention the name of the wallet app.

He did mention it. He said, as I understand, he's using the official qt wallet of each coin
and as we all know, there is no mnemonic seed provided by qt... just like bitcoin core
the basic way is by making backup of wallet.dat files (backupwallet) or by saving extracted private keys (dumpwallet)

Yes, I believe the qt application.  When Cryptopia made their delisting coin list email announcement. I would search to see if I could find a windows download. Sometimes on this bitcointalk webste, sometimes on the official coin devlopers website and some were on this Megasync download directory. 

[Davidbike1]

... told me that they could not do anything because the hard drive is physically damaged.

If the hard drive is physically damaged (most likely damage to the read heads or platters... then the chances of using software to recover the data is pretty much nil. It would require specialist hardware to be able to recover bits and pieces and the costs involved would likely be very high... their initial quote of $400 does not seem outrageous.

My advice: keep the list of coins, keep the drive, and store it safely. If the coins are ever worth enough in the future, you can try (expensive) data recovery.

Additionally at least cover your hard drive with anti-static bag (usually electrostatic bag or electrostatic clamshell) and store it somewhere dry, otherwise probability your data could be recovered will be decreased significantly.

I got my laptop back the other day.  He gave my hard drive back and placed it in a bag and put a new 2 tb hard drive into my laptop.  He couldn't recover the hard drive, he said it is about $450 for the expensive machine service and would have to send it to another shop.  When I asked him about the probability of recovering data with the expensive machine ($10,000+ machine), he said 90 to 95%.   

[coin-investor]

... told me that they could not do anything because the hard drive is physically damaged.

If the hard drive is physically damaged (most likely damage to the read heads or platters... then the chances of using software to recover the data is pretty much nil. It would require specialist hardware to be able to recover bits and pieces and the costs involved would likely be very high... their initial quote of $400 does not seem outrageous.

My advice: keep the list of coins, keep the drive, and store it safely. If the coins are ever worth enough in the future, you can try (expensive) data recovery.

I agree with this even you still don't have the means to recover your data you must make sure that you keep your hard drive, you never know if anyone of your coins will pump a thousand times just like what happens to Bitcoin, I even read a story about a guy who lost his usb with hundreds of Bitcoins on it, so better keep up.

[pinoycash]

If your harddrive is not crypto-related stuffs you can take the risk in trying freezer method.

Put the Hardisk in a aircooled freezer (not ice type) for about 2 minutes and try to re plug it in on your PC to see if you can access your HD.

This "SOMESTIMES" works if you HD Problems is cause by clicking sound or mechanical problems.