Maybe. I just don't realize why these settings are so important. There are much more problems for people in crypto if HDD crashes.
Hm. Depends on how these guy organized his workspace, I assume.
To the point of question: probably the only way are data-restoring programms, though the result isn't guaranteed. There are many of them, specially for these cases.
But I'll say - regular backups are better way)
I do not argue, of course better.But what will you do in case of a hard drive failure?
That is why it is so important to save the recovery file.If there is such a function, of course.