Recover Bitcoin from a dead hard drive
Crashed, formatted, or accidentally deleted the drive your wallet lived on? The keys may still be on the platters. We image the media forensically and carve the wallet back out.
How failed-drive recovery works
We never work on your original media. We take a read-only forensic clone first, then hunt for wallet artifacts on the copy — even in deleted or formatted space — and only then tackle any password.
Read-only clone first
We image the drive with ddrescue so the original is never written to. Failing drives get one careful pass; every recoverable sector is preserved before analysis.
Signature-based carving
wallet.dat, Berkeley DB headers, JSON keystores and BIP39 seed files have recognisable signatures. We carve them from allocated and deleted space alike.
Straight talk on SSDs
On SSDs the TRIM command can permanently wipe deleted data. We test recoverability before quoting, and tell you if the odds are poor rather than take a hopeless case.
From first message to recovered funds
Tell us what you have
Your situation, the device or files, roughly when the wallet was made, and anything you remember. No payment to assess.
Free assessment within 24 hours
We tell you honestly whether it is recoverable and what it will take. If it is hopeless, we say so plainly.
Sign the agreement
A service contract under Swiss law protects both sides before any data changes hands. We never ask for upfront payment.
We run the recovery
Work happens in-house on offline, forensic hardware. On success you regain access and pay only the success fee.
Avoiding impersonators
We only use keychainx@protonmail.com and Telegram @keychainx. We never DM first on Facebook, Instagram, X or WhatsApp, never guarantee 100% success, and never ask for upfront payment or an “unlock fee”. Anyone doing so is impersonating us.
Dead hard drive recovery questions
Can you recover a wallet from a drive that won’t power on?
Often yes. For electronic or firmware failure we can clone the drive on forensic equipment; for mechanical failure we assess whether a clean-room pass is worthwhile. Send us the model and symptoms and we will tell you the realistic odds.
I formatted or deleted the drive. Is it gone?
Not necessarily on a spinning hard drive — formatting and deletion usually leave the underlying data until it is overwritten, and we carve wallet files from that space. On SSDs the TRIM command often erases deleted data for good, so results vary; we test before promising anything.
Do I send you the drive?
You can send the physical drive, or a full disk image if you can make one. We sign a service agreement first, work only on a read-only clone, and never ask for upfront payment to recover funds.
What does it cost?
The recovery fee is success-based — a percentage of what we recover, and nothing if we fail. Any clean-room or media costs are agreed with you up front and separately.
Wallet stuck on a drive that died?
Send us the drive details. You get an honest assessment within 24 hours, and you pay the recovery fee only if we get your coins back.