I lost my bitcoin wallet. I do have the hard drive on a functioning machine, but it has been written over by a newer version of Linux.
I do have my bitcoin qt passphrase. I have the public key to any transactions I do have. I used the passphrase to create what I understand to be usable private keys (I ran this on Linux: echo -n|'passphrase'|sha256sum|grep -o '[0-9a-f]*' ).
Short of trying to scan my hard drive to recover wallet.dat, is there a reasonable way to recover my bitcoins with the information I have? I created a new bitcoin wallet and updated it.
I never had any bitcoins, then in 2014 after I lost the wallet I was sent some coin during the donation period. I have all my other coin types, but since I did not have bitcoin, I neglected to back-up the wallet (at least I have not found a back-up yet).
Any help would be appreciated.