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I don't read wired, so not sure if my story is similar, but I have a damage hard drive with 30+ coins on it. It may be worth trying a little harder to restore i

• vernie 9y ago
  I don't read Wired either, so not sure if my story is similar, but I think I'm out of clean socks so I might need to do laundry tonight.
• Scoundreller 9y ago
  Just how is the hard drive damaged? Most of the time... the data is fine, but some board-level component died. Lots of people out there are capable of swapping boards from the drive and swapping the chips storing any user-specific data , then enabling access to the data.
• ringaroundthetx 9y ago
  Its just ~$180,000 worth of bitcoin no big deal, no need to waste your time on that
• Grangar 9y ago
  You could also just mail me the drive if you get tired of it...
• cannonedhamster 9y ago
  I used to have somewhere around 100 in a wallet from the early days when bitcoin fountains were still a thing. Platters are shattered and no backups, I thought I had it backed up, but it's gone. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for a way to recover that wallet.