Thanks, I hadn't really heard about this. Although at current btc prices, it might actually just be cheaper for me to claim them as "lost" on my taxes than try and recover them
If you're considering tossing the drive, please consider mailing it to my address instead so that I can try my hand at recovering the bitcoins. I can cover shipping costs. I'll email you in case you're interested.
Well I'm not sure if moving several times and all other factors have made it exponentially harder to recover the data. It's double wrapped in a thick ziplock inside that shiny metal bag that hdd's come in when purchased out of the box and then in the freezer but of course it's been thawed and refrozen several times by now. I have no idea what the state of deterioration is or how far it'll be if they ever reach that high!
For future note, ziploc in freezer = extremely bad unless you add a desiccant to soak up stray moisture. Get som silica in there stat! Or failing that, white rice wrapped in good tissue/cloth.
