It's looks like that, he seems to be not getting over it, losing millions and so he try to salvage it by buying the landscape. And with that he seems to be losing his mind as well. And it's becoming ridiculous, that it will cost him everything.

Or what if he finds his HDD but then it's corrupt and cannot be recovered anymore?

Or it could be just rotten away and you can't even identify it as a HDD but another piece of junk?