Quote from: Speed1987 on June 11, 2017, 02:57:58 PM

Right can anybody help me?

I bought some bitcoins back in 2010, a quite an early time. I know I have at least about 20 coins(actually there was probably a lot more), they were placed in a folder on my PC and I remember my PC making them look like notepad files. Since then my hardrive has been formatted maybe twice in total to be honest. I also remember renaming the wallet file as I was worried that somebody may hack my PC and steal the coins.

I tried recuva without look, there seems to be a lot of files which aren't accessible or corrupted.

Is there anyway these coins can be traced or found on my hard drive? I am willing to share 10% if anybody can find them.

Regards
David.

Formatted twice and not restored from a backup, correct? Do you by chance have a backup anywhere? How long ago was it formatted? Has it been used a lot since? The longer ago it was formatted and the more it was used decreases the chances of recovery. Are you still using it?

Some other options for scanning are mentioned here:
http://onbitcoin.com/2013/10/29/recover-lost-bitcoin-hard-drive-wallet/