I learned about bitcoin from the gawker article about the Silk Road
I believed I mined mined small amount back then
I have some old hard drives from that era but haven't bothered looking around for it
I deleted and reinstalled my os very often because Linux was (and still remains) broken butt garbage so I'm assuming I probably overwrite the key files long ago
Bored today so I guess I'll look around
What is the safest way to search for deleted shit on old drives without fricking up the drives and further deleting it
!linuxchads !schizomaxxxers !codedels
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they're gone. learn to accept it.
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I have already accepted it, not really planning to find anything just bored and I think I'm likely to find other interesting things I worked on in that era and long forgot about
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Use one of those external sata-to-usb thingies
Mount as read only if possible
If the drive won't spin up, try putting it in a ziploc, then the freezer. That or give it a sharp twist as it tries spinning
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I did this as a last effort to access my old wallet and it didn't work. It's worth a shot though.
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skill issue
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The drive spins up but doesn't connect via sata, I think cuz I left it disconnected in closet for years and the pins are noticeably blackened with dust
Planning to get some isopropyl in the morning and see if that fixes it
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Dolphin recovery cowtools offer products to bypass the HDD ROM chip to force it on
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i want to know too
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if you figure it out i have 2 BTC to share
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isn't that like less than 1% of your BTC
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LMAO my IRL wife is actually super
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We have already joked about making you into laksa before
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Turning people into curry is more of the asian thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayakannu_Marithamuthu
Or meat buns
Laksa would be new I guess
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You don't, you let those coins vanish so mine go up in value
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You can try to recover using cowtools that scan partitions but the issue is HDD's overwrite old data so if wherever that data was it'd be gone. If it was an SSD it might have some slightly higher chance but really chances are you won't ever recover it.
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ctrl+f
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There are recovery cowtools like Recuva for deleted files but I don't know if that works through OS reinstalls.
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Another L for distrohoppers
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Aren't there recovery cowtools that place ovide all data unwritten or written over since it takes multiple full zero wipes to destroy her bata beyond savings
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I don't believe anyone has ever successfully recovered data that's been wiped at least once, it's just a theoretical possibility that some nation state might have the tech required.
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I've heard anecdotes of single wipe drives having recoverable data
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You'd need to literally disassemble the hard drive and place the disk in a special reader designed explicitly for that purpose.
I'm assuming
@Discuss isn't going to do that, in fact I'm going to further assume he has no access to such a machine.
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The most expensive part of that process is having a clean room with positive airflow which is trivial th hardware and software runs sub 1k from dolphin recovery
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