I lost a .dat wallet with 1.54BTC.
I managed to find the .dat file by scanning the original laptop used to create the wallet from 2014. Unfortunately the file seem to be highly damaged. Someone tried to extract the keys using Pywallet but it failed.
I am looking for a deep disk partition research, in order to find the key. Unfortunately I am not capable of doing this.
I am willing to give 10% to the person able to succeed. If that's even possible. Which is around ~7500$ now.
I created an image of the disk. Here
https://mega.nz/file/ux4WQLDB#cc_OHpVKRNszxDrnl5Y4A1GwzfszlNNpVJwi43vtXJYAddress : 1FHYSH65uKdVGhR7Y2QznxfBtLWhjotqUq
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1FHYSH65uKdVGhR7Y2QznxfBtLWhjotqUqMore infos It's an old netbook from 2010 or even older. I bought it just to create the wallets. I rarely use it because it's very old and slow. 60% of the disk is free. I can't remember what I did with this laptop... maybe I reinstalled windows at some point. I'm not sure.
I created about 20 altcoin wallets and 5 bitcoin wallets with that computer. So there might be other keys around.
If it fail, my last option would be to submit the disk to a forensic data recovery lab. Maybe they will be able to find something.
Crossing fingers. Thanks !