 | Hello, My first post on this subreddit was yesterday and I promptly deleted it after several users recommended I do so. I spent the next 24hours doing as much research as I could on Bitcoin, addresses, keys, hard drives, recovery, etc. and quickly learned that it is totally safe to share public addresses. With this info I have decided that I would like the help of this very helpful community again and am going to update those who saw the previous post. To start, I found this hard drive last week with one of my buddies while we were sorting through some of my late sons things. We have been taking our time with what we have been organizing and after some searching learned that this hard drive public address is likely Bitcoin related. This led me to post here yesterday where I got overwhelming amounts of help to try and recover the supposedly large balance. Believe me, I would love to ask my son about it or give it back to him, as many others have asked about last time. The first thing I was recommended to do was purchase a USB to SATA cable so that I could plug it into my laptop. I have the cable and have set it up and have discovered a file called "BACKUP.dat". This seems to be a copy of a "wallet.dat" that can be used for recovery of the Bitcoins. Unfortunately, this is all there is on the drive. I was expecting to find "Bitcoin Core" downloaded so that the hard drive would also have the Bitcoins and now have learned from several others that I may need to sync this file with other websites and software. I am hoping that you all can help me with these questions...
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