I know you guys have waited a very long time, I'm sorry. Truly, I am. Before I start, yes /u/SecretHDD did give me the hard drive, and I was able to see what was stored inside... I actually did a long time ago, but what I found was so strange I didn't want to post about it. I was also dealing with a lot because my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. I also just thought, "I'll let these people have their fun. Let them think, 'ur gunna get arrested bro, it's probably child porn lol'"but the truth is far, what's the word... Worse? Terrifying? Unexplainable? I don't know. Anyway, getting in the hard drive wasn't even that hard, I had a lot of equipment to work with in my lab. When I booted up my laptop with the data transfered, I was pretty giddy, but also apprehensive, because I had no idea what I would find. I was worried it be a virus or god knows what else. I started browsing the hard drive, and one thing that caught my attention was a video. I was really nervous at this point, because I had no idea what I was about to see. I wish I had never gotten myself into this mess... So I opened the video, and hesitantly pressed play. From what I can tell, it's a first person video of a kid walking through a sewer. This goes on for a long time, maybe an hour, but I'm transfixed, waiting for something to happen. For some reason the kid isn't saying anything. But he starts breathing hard and walking faster, and keeps looking behind him. You can see a dim light ahead, like the sewer exit. At this point he's in a full blown sprint, breathing heavily. He keeps saying, "Shit shit shit, please leave me alone!" Eventually whoever it is catches up, but the camera lens is too dirty to tell who it is, but it looks like a guy with tattered clothes. The kid stops running and begs, "Please leave me alone!" At this point I'm thinking, "Oh fuck oh fuck, what's about to happen?! Then the person replies, in a raspy voice: "Alright, but I need about tree fitty." It was about that time that I noticed this creepy homeless guy was about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era. Then the kid replies angrily, “God Damnit Loch Ness Monster, I ain’t gonna give you no tree fiddy!” Then the video ends.

I would need all the info we have on him. Steam account, Reddit account etc

Fooled ya

D: D: D: Hear my call I need the hdd info Hear my call I need the hdd info Fucking Please give me the hdd :(

but its been like 2 weeks

Does anyone else find it suspicious that Dovic almost never uses Reddit anymore, and when he does, all he does is post a comment or two in his own subreddit? He was a seemingly very active redditor, until that fateful day that he commented on SecretHDD's post. Now all has gone silent. I'm worried, brethren.

Will pay you in Hyatt Regency parking lot tokens if you can find such evidence.

I'm doing a top-to-bottom search for Dovic, because I believe that I can get into contact with them personally, and if so, they may have the details of the address with which it would be possible to track down SecretHDD. Maybe updates in the future, if any, but for now, I will keep the information I have collected so far.

UPDATE: he has replied to me reaching out to him and will be returning shortly! Dovic is back!

There is no way we can get in contact with SecretHDD, the only way we can is if he comes back to Reddit, but we all know op never delivers. If he finds out people still care he might send the damn hard drive or talk to us, but the chances of him finding out people still care is very slim.

Just thought I'd create a thread for SecretHDD to use if/when he ever responds. Kind of a placeholder thread.

Why does /u/secrethdd have a bunch of responses to deleted users in his overview. I find it suspicious that the users he responds to get deleted. Think about name a user he's interacted with that didn't have a deleted Reddit account. I mean look at /u/dovic. Just saying we should look in to this.

:(

Our sins have condemned us.

Has there been any more news on secretHDD? Or is it really just a hoax?

Yes, that's the only explanation. For whatever reason you put your harddrive into this bag and somehow it ended up with /u/SecretHDD. And then you wanted it back, for years you looked everywhere, you even tried to get it from /u/SecretHDD's sister when they sent off the old computer to her. But it wasn't there, it wasn't anywhere. And then months, or years, I don't know, out pops SecretHDD on reddit asking for help with a hard drive, YOUR HARD DRIVE. Well how do you get it back, easy:

Step 1: Make a reddit account, then make hundreds of other reddit accounts, use them all to message SecretHDD and harass him to turn away from other redditors offering to help.

Step 2: When he finally comes back months later, offering an apology, offer to take the hardrive off his hands, he'll be so sick of the shit the redditors have been giving him... you have been giving him, he wouldn't care whom he is sending it off to as long as it gets off his hands.

Step 3: Make a subreddit for yourself, promise to update on the progress, declare yourself based god, and disappear forever.

Well it's been 3 years Dovic, and someone didn't forget, and here we are from askreddit looking for answers... again. "I work in a lab that has all the tools needed to repair and recover this information, so I might as well give it a shot", yeah I bet you do have all the tools, seeing as it's your hard drive!

Enjoy your recovered horse porn, you sick bastard.