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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

so a few years back i had a few bitcoin on a hard drive but today i tried to access the harddrive and i ended up spilling a glass full of water all over it and now it wont boot up.

what are my options?

I assumed your keys are also in that hard drive too! if yes then you have to hire someone special who can extract data for you and it is very easy task. I have seen a lot of videos in which experts have advance software which can even restore the data from corrupted device and yours only corrupted due to water. Which in my POV is not that big issue.

But still, you have to hire someone with whom you can trust your money. Because if that person become greedy then the access to your wallet back doesn't matter anymore. So, try to be careful or you could do that by yourself too but i think you might lack the gear like hardware and software equipment's. So, hire a professional for this and it could be restored easily.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

so a few years back i had a few bitcoin on a hard drive but today i tried to access the harddrive and i ended up spilling a glass full of water all over it and now it wont boot up.

what are my options?

Is this supposed to still be so much of a problem if you have the private keys or seed phrase to the blockchain wallet that contains your bitcoins.?
For me personally. I've never had bitcoin stored on a hard drive, so it's pretty difficult for me to understand what the recovery process is like, but I do have bitcoin stored on non-custodial blockchain wallet which I access through my pc or mobile device most of the time, I don't know what the difference is from this type of storage and storing on a hard drive.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

so a few years back i had a few bitcoin on a hard drive

If you have no problem telling the amount - then maybe someone can recommend you the appropriate course of action. If the value of bitcoins you have is not much ^{[eg less than $ 100],} then forget about high paying services like file recovery services or something like that. But if your bitcoin value is big enough - then you can take that approach.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

so a few years back i had a few bitcoin on a hard drive but today i tried to access the harddrive and i ended up spilling a glass full of water all over it and now it wont boot up.

what are my options?

There are many tutorials on Youtube or Google how to recover a hard drive that does not boot but that sometimes can not be done with your current situation, but for me is his choice to take to a professional handyman in this field and ask if this hard drive can be recovered or not?

Later the repairman will check and tell you the problem he is facing, but I hope it can be restored.

Besides, never be careless because it has assets in it and make a copy of seed phrase on paper and keep it in a safe place.

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Quote from: coinerer on July 22, 2023, 09:37:24 AM

The lifeblood of Bitcoin is the private key. You can easily access your wallet if you have the private key. And if not, in that case you just need to recover your HDD. It's quite expensive and how much it will cost depends on the condition of your HDD. So whether you should spend money to recover it depends on how much Bitcoin you had in your wallet and how important it is to you. So try to do what is best according to the condition

To be more accurate, the most important thing in non custodial wallet is seed phrase because seed phrase is consist of many private key. When you only save the private key, it's mean you can only access some of your coins, not all.

Not only expensive, it might be impossible and there's a chance the technician who recover his HDD will access his wallet since he know the private key or seed phrase.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

so a few years back i had a few bitcoin on a hard drive but today i tried to access the harddrive and i ended up spilling a glass full of water all over it and now it wont boot up.

what are my options?

The lifeblood of Bitcoin is the private key. You can easily access your wallet if you have the private key. And if not, in that case you just need to recover your HDD. It's quite expensive and how much it will cost depends on the condition of your HDD. So whether you should spend money to recover it depends on how much Bitcoin you had in your wallet and how important it is to you. So try to do what is best according to the condition

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Well you only problem right now is to find a way to repair your damages, in terms of your wallet, I believe you can still have access to it.

Except I am missing something here, you have some Bitcoin in your wallet right, if you have the seed phrase to that wallet then you actually do not have to worry about access to the wallet .

Also the way you treat your device can say alot about the person I think you should learn how to secure your seed phrase especially.

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Just like the other comments have mentioned, it is not on your hard drive, it is stored on Blockchain and you can get it back with your private keys. When you're going through that process of storing it on your hard drive, I would like to believe that you had the options of setting up either 12 or 24 key phrase for the wallet, that you can use to access them from anywhere.

In case of next time, try to be careful when you're dealing with things that has to do with your money like this, I don't know what made you spill water on a hard drive that is holding something like Bit[Suspicious link removed]d luck with recovering it though.

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Quote from: tbct_mt2 on July 22, 2023, 06:23:49 AM

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OP has no other choice if he can not recover data by himself but using third party data recovery is risky. They can say we fail to recover your data but in fact they got it successfully and stole that wallet file and got access to bitcoin. We can not know what they do after we pass our devices and drives to them for data recovery.

I personally know that some data saving services offer an option for the client to be present in the data rescue procedure, and I wrote that in the previous post. I suppose that OP can ask for this type of service if he is ready to pay more, and I believe that one glass of water could not destroy the data on the disk - because that genius who is looking for his HDD in a pile of garbage for ten years still claims that data can be saved.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

so a few years back i had a few bitcoin on a hard drive but today i tried to access the harddrive and i ended up spilling a glass full of water all over it and now it wont boot up.

what are my options?

I just want to ask you dude, how did you lose access to your Bitcoin? Shouldn't you know your private key for the Bitcoin address you mentioned? unless you misplace the private key you have for the Bitcoin address you are hiding. or Except it's not. if it was hacked, was the address you used for bitcoin hacked that you put the address on your hard drive?

Because even if your hard drive has a problem, as long as you have your private key, you will still be able to open that account with your bitcoin for sure. Unless you haven't saved your private here in your Bitcoin address. I also don't understand in your post if your Bitcoin is in a cold or hardware wallet?

As far as I know, many people are quite negligent in storing their private key or seed phrase, I mean, they store it right on the hard drive on the computer and they trust that it will be safe there. Many people have fallen into the same situation as the OP and they completely lost access to their assets.

But the hard drive spilled water is not too difficult to solve. As long as OP takes it to data rescue experts, I think everything will be solved. But the problem is how many bitcoins he has because data rescue doesn't come cheap either.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 03:26:38 AM

all my private keys was stored on the hard drive

I guess you'll have to say goodbye to your bitcoins because if that hard drive can't be fixed or the contents of it not recovered in any way, you might as well start moving on. Also, follow what @mk4 said, is the recovery worth the effort and time, if not then don't bother and just be better at safekeeping your wallet. Also, make a habit of checking if your electronic devices are in the vicinity of water.

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As mentioned by forum members that have posted before me,you should check the cost of paying a professional recover service to help you get those files from your hard disc. If it worth it then go ahead,but if it doesn't,forget about it and hodli your bitcoin for a very long time when the price worth seeking for a professional recovery personnel to help you get the files. This should be a lesson for since you chose to play over important thing by bringing water close to your system. Try drying the water first and see if it works. You failed to back up your wallet and have put yourself into worries.

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Quote from: mk4 on July 22, 2023, 01:07:30 AM

Calculate how much bitcoin you own in USD(or your local currency) terms, then decide if it's worth paying decent sums of money for a file recovery service. It might cost a good amount of money.

Perfect solution, OP you really have to make this calculations if the amount you owe on the wallets is worth going for a recoverable service or not, this will actually help you not to get an additional lost added with a wasted efforts when you opted in for what is not worth it, but the question i may like to ask here is where can one get a reliable hardware wallet recovery and maintenance team's help and not get scammed through such means, could it be from the source he bought the hardware wallet from or there are tech expertise experienced in hardware wallet maintenance which he can request their service?

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Quote from: Lucius on July 22, 2023, 06:12:24 AM

Haven't you ever heard/seen that electronics and water are not the best of friends? Such a situation is incomprehensible to me, because I never have any liquids near my computer or any other electronics.

It is security wise. We should stop doing things belong to our childhood or teenager hood.

Eating and drinking when we are working with a computer, a laptop are simply unwise and it's very risky for physical damages on digital devices. Even we turn off our computer or laptop, like you said we should not put any water, liquid around our devices.

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I recommend that you seek professional help from people who are engaged in professional data recovery, and considering that you have very sensitive data, you can ask to be present during the procedure (some offer this option). Of course, as some have already mentioned, you should first calculate whether it is worth saving the data considering their value in relation to the cost of the procedure - although I would note that you should also take into account the possible value of those BTC in the future.

OP has no other choice if he can not recover data by himself but using third party data recovery is risky. They can say we fail to recover your data but in fact they got it successfully and stole that wallet file and got access to bitcoin. We can not know what they do after we pass our devices and drives to them for data recovery.

Hopefully OP will recover his wallet successfully and bitcoin in that wallet will be intact. However, this accident reminds OP the importance of wallet backups. If you have a Bitcoin wallet, back it up before you use it for receiving, storing and sending bitcoin.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 03:26:38 AM

all my private keys was stored on the hard drive

So if that's the case then why not follow the recovery service professional suggestion? You cannot get any help here since people sympathy cannot do anything so best to seek a good skilled personnel nearby on your place and try to ask if there's a chance that you can recover your file so that you can get back all your keys and other important documents you need.

This is hard situation if this story is true since its mentally draining especially if you get worried for huge funds lost due to that incident.

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

so a few years back i had a few bitcoin on a hard drive but today i tried to access the harddrive and i ended up spilling a glass full of water all over it and now it wont boot up.

Haven't you ever heard/seen that electronics and water are not the best of friends? Such a situation is incomprehensible to me, because I never have any liquids near my computer or any other electronics.

Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 12:12:48 AM

what are my options?

I recommend that you seek professional help from people who are engaged in professional data recovery, and considering that you have very sensitive data, you can ask to be present during the procedure (some offer this option). Of course, as some have already mentioned, you should first calculate whether it is worth saving the data considering their value in relation to the cost of the procedure - although I would note that you should also take into account the possible value of those BTC in the future.

You can read more at this link -> https://computertech.com/blog/hard-drive-water-damaged

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 03:26:38 AM

all my private keys was stored on the hard drive

It's really very sad to say that you aren't much responsible for your assets. Why you haven't keep your backup in a safe place? Is that fund wasn't much worthy? The last hope is that ou may try to repair it from an expert who is trusted too.

Maybe you lost a little amount of Bitcoin. Though the fund is big or little it's a must to keep backup in a safest place. It's a good lesson for everyone who aren't much aware about their security or backup. Be conscious about your wallet and make your funds Secured.

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Quote from: jrrsparkles on July 22, 2023, 12:18:18 AM

Technically Bitcoins are not stored in your hard drives, it's just in the blockchain and it always be so the wallet and private keys are just the path ways to access them.

It’s just misconception sometimes when people say they have bitcoin on drives, the thing on these drives are your private keys which are basically your only access to bitcoin. So it is actually the private key they loss when this drives got damage. Even on hardware wallet it is still private keys on it.

Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 03:26:38 AM

all my private keys was stored on the hard drive

Then you might have a seed phrase somewhere to help recover the wallet ( that is if the wallet wasn’t created before seed phrase introduction, like before 2012 or 2013). If you don’t have then just find a repairer for hard drives.

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It doesn't sound like this happened, are you saying that you store Bitcoin in a wallet for the past years and you don't have your recovery seed written down somewhere? anyways, since you poured water on something that has your Bitcoin in it makes me feel you are not responsible, You can't keep that Hard Disk safe and you don't also have your private key? Are you for real?

Dry the hard disk first and try again, if it doesn't work , go to any PC repairer store and stay will that person to fix your hard disk or at least recover the files on the disk, Also how much Bitcoin do you have in this Hard disk? Is it worth much?

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Quote from: AsPhYiXiA on July 22, 2023, 03:26:38 AM

all my private keys was stored on the hard drive

this is why people should always keep a physical copy of their private keys and preferably several copies of it.

anyway, Husires's suggestions seem like the best options you have. just another suggestion, when drying your hard drive up, try using silica gel patches(if you have them), they are great at absorbing moisture.

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