Topic: [Data Recovery Problem] Recovering many Wallet.dat from repartitioned Hard drive - page 4. (Read 7906 times)
July 18, 2013, 03:33:29 PM
I don't have access to a Linux computer for the whole week-end... And Windows refuses to let me read raw disks correctly so you'll have to wait a bit more.
July 17, 2013, 06:17:05 PM
All the addresses found will have the Bitcoin format. Keep in mind that this format in nearly never used in the wallet (only for labels) though.
AFAIK all the altcoins have the same wallet format than Bitcoin, so putting the recovered wallet in the altcoin dir and making a rescan should (must!) work.
Also, yes the current pywallet won't ever find any encrypted key so that's why.
By the way, everything's working now. I still have to make things clean, pretty and practical but it's definitely working with encrypted private keys. I'll push the update in around 24 hours.
AFAIK all the altcoins have the same wallet format than Bitcoin, so putting the recovered wallet in the altcoin dir and making a rescan should (must!) work.
Also, yes the current pywallet won't ever find any encrypted key so that's why.
By the way, everything's working now. I still have to make things clean, pretty and practical but it's definitely working with encrypted private keys. I'll push the update in around 24 hours.
July 17, 2013, 04:54:26 PM
Also import finished, with your new pywallet:
Importing key 111/111:
Address (Bitcoin): 1BKGXf9pFg14XK38Sbj6w44dLE3jYABZdp
It seems though only addresses starting with "1" were found.
Not sure which wallet was that.
I had lots of Worldcoins for instance but no address starting with "W" was found. I wonder if it's because it was encrypted?
Importing key 111/111:
Address (Bitcoin): 1BKGXf9pFg14XK38Sbj6w44dLE3jYABZdp
It seems though only addresses starting with "1" were found.
Not sure which wallet was that.
I had lots of Worldcoins for instance but no address starting with "W" was found. I wonder if it's because it was encrypted?
July 17, 2013, 04:53:00 PM
Good news, I found the pattern.
How much time can you wait by the way? Could you wait for a few days?
How much time can you wait by the way? Could you wait for a few days?
Awesome!! I'm so happy to hear.
Sure I will wait - the only alternative is loosing all the coins from all the wallets!
I can work on my PC anyway ... this Xubuntu USB Live OS is good enough for the time being.
I won't touch the drive of course.
July 17, 2013, 01:53:40 PM
Good news, I found the pattern.
How much time can you wait by the way? Could you wait for a few days?
How much time can you wait by the way? Could you wait for a few days?
July 17, 2013, 12:58:25 PM
I'm glad it's appreciated!
It will be possible if there's a common pattern. I'm working on it now, I'll come back to report any info.
Also, maybe there's still a copy of your wallets before you encrypt them on the disk, so try anyway with the current version.
Edit: Wow, that's soooo slow! I'll try to make it faster once I'm done with encrypted wallets support
It will be possible if there's a common pattern. I'm working on it now, I'll come back to report any info.
Also, maybe there's still a copy of your wallets before you encrypt them on the disk, so try anyway with the current version.
Edit: Wow, that's soooo slow! I'll try to make it faster once I'm done with encrypted wallets support
July 17, 2013, 12:44:06 PM
Done
Edit: Are your wallets encrypted? Because I just remembered they can't be recovered (the recovery feature is old and never draw much attention) but I can add this if you need it.
You're the best.
Yes, they were encrypted. Would it be possible to recover those?
July 17, 2013, 12:35:53 PM
Done
Edit: Are your wallets encrypted? Because I just remembered they can't be recovered (the recovery feature is old and never draw much attention) but I can add this if you need it.
July 17, 2013, 12:31:35 PM
Pywallet can read all the private keys it can find (doesn't care if in a .dat or not) on a partition and put them all in the same wallet.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
Thanks. Pywallet looks great, the problem is, I deleted the partition on which the files were. So I need a "raw scan" or "deep scan" or how should I put it.
It does work however if I apply Pywallet ON the recovered .dat (recovered with the makomk tool : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-private-keywalletdat-data-recovery-tool-25091 - it scans whole disk )
So I think now I KNOW it's possible, the problem is that makomk retrieved only keys that looked like bitcoin addr. starting with 1... it didnt retrieve the other wallets of the other alt-coins
It definitely works on Linux, I tested it myself.
Also, as it looks for private keys, all your private keys are put in the recovered wallet. Bitcoin, Litecoin or whatever.
This is amazing, thank you. Are you the creator of this tool? It's a life safer.
I'm doing the raw recovery now & it will take some time.
Excuse the (probably) dumb question, but what is "Gio"?
Is it the same as gigabytes? 1 Gio = 1 GB ?
I added the rest, including the recovery.
'o' means 'B'. Pywallet accepts both.
And the 'i' indicates that you're using a binary prefix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
(long story short, 1024**3 instead of 1000**3)
Both binary and SI prefixes are accepted.
As for the error, I'll look at that right now
July 17, 2013, 12:05:18 PM
It managed to import just a few keys (2 or 3) and then gave me this error:
Quote
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./pywallet.py", line 4438, in
importprivkey(db, sec, "recovered: %s"%sec, None, True)
File "./pywallet.py", line 2291, in importprivkey
crypted = 'salt' in json_db['mkey']
KeyError: 'mkey'
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$
File "./pywallet.py", line 4438, in
importprivkey(db, sec, "recovered: %s"%sec, None, True)
File "./pywallet.py", line 2291, in importprivkey
crypted = 'salt' in json_db['mkey']
KeyError: 'mkey'
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$
July 17, 2013, 11:33:29 AM
Pywallet can read all the private keys it can find (doesn't care if in a .dat or not) on a partition and put them all in the same wallet.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
Thanks. Pywallet looks great, the problem is, I deleted the partition on which the files were. So I need a "raw scan" or "deep scan" or how should I put it.
It does work however if I apply Pywallet ON the recovered .dat (recovered with the makomk tool : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-private-keywalletdat-data-recovery-tool-25091 - it scans whole disk )
So I think now I KNOW it's possible, the problem is that makomk retrieved only keys that looked like bitcoin addr. starting with 1... it didnt retrieve the other wallets of the other alt-coins
It definitely works on Linux, I tested it myself.
Also, as it looks for private keys, all your private keys are put in the recovered wallet. Bitcoin, Litecoin or whatever.
This is amazing, thank you. Are you the creator of this tool? It's a life safer.
I'm doing the raw recovery now & it will take some time.
Excuse the (probably) dumb question, but what is "Gio"?
Is it the same as gigabytes? 1 Gio = 1 GB ?
July 17, 2013, 07:05:19 AM
Pywallet can read all the private keys it can find (doesn't care if in a .dat or not) on a partition and put them all in the same wallet.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
Thanks. Pywallet looks great, the problem is, I deleted the partition on which the files were. So I need a "raw scan" or "deep scan" or how should I put it.
It does work however if I apply Pywallet ON the recovered .dat (recovered with the makomk tool : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-private-keywalletdat-data-recovery-tool-25091 - it scans whole disk )
So I think now I KNOW it's possible, the problem is that makomk retrieved only keys that looked like bitcoin addr. starting with 1... it didnt retrieve the other wallets of the other alt-coins
It definitely works on Linux, I tested it myself.
Also, as it looks for private keys, all your private keys are put in the recovered wallet. Bitcoin, Litecoin or whatever.
July 17, 2013, 06:58:45 AM
Pywallet can read all the private keys it can find (doesn't care if in a .dat or not) on a partition and put them all in the same wallet.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
Thanks. Pywallet looks great, the problem is, I deleted the partition on which the files were. So I need a "raw scan" or "deep scan" or how should I put it.
It does work however if I apply Pywallet ON the recovered .dat (recovered with the makomk tool : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-private-keywalletdat-data-recovery-tool-25091 - it scans whole disk )
So I think now I KNOW it's possible, the problem is that makomk retrieved only keys that looked like bitcoin addr. starting with 1... it didnt retrieve the other wallets of the other alt-coins
July 17, 2013, 06:26:02 AM
Pywallet can read all the private keys it can find (doesn't care if in a .dat or not) on a partition and put them all in the same wallet.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use it, give a look at wxHexEditor. It might allow to search for patterns (prefix of private keys for example) and save the following bytes.
July 17, 2013, 06:19:41 AM
1) I had a Linux system with many wallets ,bitcoin, litecoin, devcoin, etc. and due to immense stupidity forgot to backup the hidden dot.folders ( .litecoin , .namecoin ... ) - where the wallets are - upon reinstalling a new OS
2) After deleting the partition and just before starting installing a new OS I cancelled this so the disk is still empty - no files were written over it ... this is why I have hope
3) I tried this tool: http://www.btcnn.com/2011/09/recovering-lost-due-to-format-bitcoin.html -
it did recover around 555 keys ... but it saves them all in one .dat - how can I ever import them unto many wallets?
4) I tried using PhotoRec to recover the .dat files using this : http://www.cyplo.net/2012/04/01/bitcoin-wallet-recovery-photorec/ - guide
this looks better since it saves many .dat files ... but some are 180 KB, some are 300 KB, some are 1 MB, some 600 MB (?)
I tried running *coin in a LiveCD environment and replacing wallet.dat with each of those files but it doesnt work.
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I'm about to give up ... any ideas? I'll reward the person who can help
2) After deleting the partition and just before starting installing a new OS I cancelled this so the disk is still empty - no files were written over it ... this is why I have hope
3) I tried this tool: http://www.btcnn.com/2011/09/recovering-lost-due-to-format-bitcoin.html -
it did recover around 555 keys ... but it saves them all in one .dat - how can I ever import them unto many wallets?
4) I tried using PhotoRec to recover the .dat files using this : http://www.cyplo.net/2012/04/01/bitcoin-wallet-recovery-photorec/ - guide
this looks better since it saves many .dat files ... but some are 180 KB, some are 300 KB, some are 1 MB, some 600 MB (?)
I tried running *coin in a LiveCD environment and replacing wallet.dat with each of those files but it doesnt work.
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I'm about to give up ... any ideas? I'll reward the person who can help
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