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Recover lost Coins

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31-08-2017, 12:44 PM
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So a friend of mine did some mining just when bitcoin just started out, and did not think anything of it. He now knows what it could be worth but its sitting on a corrupted hard drive. Anything he can do?

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01-09-2017, 11:05 AM
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Well if he does have the key thats a problem ...

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11-09-2017, 03:53 PM
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Nope. Lost = lost unfortunately. There is no way to recover these coins.

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15-09-2017, 10:56 PM
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On a corrupted HDD. What do you mean by that? Was it formatted, re-formatted, converted, or is it in RAW? Was he using a desktop wallet? I mean, if he has the time and money he could have it swapped and cloned, but there is still no guarantee the wallet will be able to launch. There's a chance for grabbing files individually and rebuilding the app to run again, but manual installations suck if you're using windows.

At the end of the day, he may be shit out of luck, unfortunately.

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25-09-2017, 06:00 PM
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I love this site too much it learned a lot of thing I would never thank him enough!

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25-09-2017, 06:48 PM
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Hmm. Bad situation. I think the take away is the lessons

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