Topic: Help: recover privkey after exporting from Qt? (Read 4869 times)
You renamed the wallet to wallet.dat and ran Bitcoin with 'bitcoin-qt -rescan' ?
nothing recognizable within these recovered files:
Code:
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Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 527 possible unencrypted keys
All the found encrypted private keys have been decrypted.
The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct
Importing:
The new wallet C:\recovered/recovered_wallet_1375671865.dat contains the 0 recov
ered key
C:\Python27>
Put the last code from https://raw.github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/master/pywallet.py in pywallet.py
Then
Or if you don't want to lose time change the recov_device parameter to this:
where you change the value with the correct path to the file
Then
Code:
python.exe pywallet.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
Code:
--recov_device=PartialRecoveryFile:c:\dir\pywallet_partial_recovery_xxxx.dat
here's what inside "recovered":
{'\x00\x01\x03key': [130331297, 130331761, 130332225, 130332689, 130333153, 130333617, 130334081, 130334545, 130335009, 130335473, 130335937, 130336401, 130336865, 130337329, 130337793, 130338257, 130339289, 130339653, 130340017, 130343861, 130344225, 130344589, 130344953, 130344953, 130345317, 130345681, 130347481, 130347845, 130348209, 130348573, 130348937, 130349301, 130349665, 130350029, 130350393, 130350757, 130351121, 130351485, 130351849, 130352213, 130352577, 130352941, 130353305, 130353669, 130354033, 130354397, 130354761, 130355125, 130355673, 130356037, 130356401, 130356765, 130357129, 130357493, 130357857, 130358221, 130358585, 130358949, 130359313, 130359677, 130360041, 130360405, 130360769, 130361133, 130361497, 130361861, 130362225, 130362589, 130362953, 130363317, 130372473, 130375545, 130375909, 130378973, 130379337, 130379701, 130381341, 130381705, 130382069, 130382433, 130382797, 130383161, 130383525, 130383889, 130384253, 130384617, 130384981, 130385345, 130385709, 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Code:
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Read 75.9 Go in 27.6 minutes
Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 527 possible unencrypted keys
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pywallet.py", line 4849, in
recoveredKeys=recov(device, passes, size, 10240, options.recov_outputdir)
File "pywallet.py", line 1563, in recov
calcspeed=1.0*cpt/(tone-tzero)*60 #calc/min
ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero
C:\Python27>
C:\Python27>
now what? was hoping it'd spit out the unencrypted keys?
First put the content of this in pywallet.py in c:\python27
Then replace pywallet_2.1.0b4.py by pywallet.py in the command
Then replace pywallet_2.1.0b4.py by pywallet.py in the command
working...
First put the content of this in pywallet.py in c:\python27
Then replace pywallet_2.1.0b4.py by pywallet.py in the command
Then replace pywallet_2.1.0b4.py by pywallet.py in the command
Code:
C:\Python27>python.exe pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov
_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
python.exe: can't open file 'pywallet_2.1.0b4.py': [Errno 2] No such file or dir
ectory
C:\Python27>
Ok, change the command to this:
Report the error if it goes bad again
Code:
c:\Python27\python.exe pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
Report the error if it goes bad again
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What does no go means? What do you see? Error messages?
What does no go means? What do you see? Error messages?
no go means didn't work. ran this from the administrator command line like you recommended:
Code:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_si
ze 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
'pywallet_2.1.0b4.py' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Windows\system32>
C:\Windows\system32>cd pyth
The system cannot find the path specified.
both python and pywallet are in the Python27 folder
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What does no go means? What do you see? Error messages?
What does no go means? What do you see? Error messages?
The hard drive data might be irrecoverable, but perhaps the thumb driives aren't? Maybe more efforts need to be centered in searching for the missing drives at this point.
I think you can google them to find them but the problem here is not pycrypto or libssl
What you need to do is running the console as an administrator
Do this:
Then right click on cmd, Run as administrator
What you need to do is running the console as an administrator
Do this:
Then right click on cmd, Run as administrator
still no go.
I think you can google them to find them but the problem here is not pycrypto or libssl
What you need to do is running the console as an administrator
Do this:
Then right click on cmd, Run as administrator
What you need to do is running the console as an administrator
Do this:
Then right click on cmd, Run as administrator
Thanks, I can't even read...
Try this then
Try this then
Code:
pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
" Nothing is stopping you from doing that. The key data doesn't actually leave the original wallet. It's just copied."
Yeah pretty much what I thought.where do i find pycrypto and libssl?
Code:
C:\Python27>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --reco
v_outputdir "C:\recovered"
WARNING:root:pycrypto or libssl not found, decryption may be slow
Can't open C:, check the path or try as root
C:\Python27>
Thanks, I can't even read...
Try this then
Try this then
Code:
pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
" Nothing is stopping you from doing that. The key data doesn't actually leave the original wallet. It's just copied."
Yeah pretty much what I thought. 
What is the output of the following?
Code:
python pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
Code:
C:\>python pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go
--recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\>
What is the output of the following?
Code:
python pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
ok, installed python 2.7, twisted, and zope-interface.
how do i install pywallet, then run it on the C:drive?
how do i install pywallet, then run it on the C:drive?
download pywallet.py from github and run it from the windows command line.
Yup
Code:
wget "http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wmXTdQrf" -O pywallet_2.1.0b4.py
Code:
python pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go(change this to something superior than your device size) --recov_outputdir .
i should be able to get this to work. i've installed all the tools for pywallet onto the exact windows computer that vanitygen'd "1cypher". i dumped the current wallet using 8989 but this isn't a wallet that ever had "1cypher". but the remnants must be somewhere in this OS if you're correct about how vanitygen leaving traces of the address that can be recovered.
for the life of me though, i can't get the right combination of commands to "recover" the privkey from this. not a frequent command line user:
Code:
python pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go(change this to something superior than your device size) --recov_outputdir .
any further suggestions?
1- Download pywallet_2.1.0b4.py to C:\ *
2- Create a dir named "recovered" on C:\ *
Code:
cd c:
python pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go --recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
i remembered incorrectly. it was not generated on a vm.
i am now on the exact Windows machine i generated "1cypher" on last year so if a privkey remnant is stored somewhere in the hard drive as jackjack suggests, then it should be here.
having said that, here is what i get when i execute your command:
Code:
C:\>python pywallet_2.1.0b4.py --recover --recov_device "C:" --recov_size 1000Go
--recov_outputdir "C:\recovered"
'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\>
edit: i originally installed pywallet to the Downloads folder but dragged it over to C: just b/c it didn't run when i initially directed it at Downloads.
Your best bet is to work with the "wallet.dat" that once contained the priv key. Like psy previously said the C: drive was probably rewritten so you wouldn't have a chance of getting anything.
How about the Armory wallet? You imported the priv key with it?
actually i think the opposite.
i already dumped the keys twice, once using linux and once using 8989 in Windows, from this wallet.dat using jackjack's tool but it's not in there despite "1cypher..." being in there. i think Armory extracts the privkey permanently.
seems my only chance is to recover it from somewhere on the hard drive. remember, this hard drive has NOT been overwritten since the privkey was generated. it is a Windows system on a Mac booted thru BootCamp.
jackjack's 8989 tool doesn't have a disk recovery mode. and i can't seem to get the command line argument to work right despite installing python, twisted, zope-interface, pywallet, etc and using psy's/jackjacks commands. it's probably some simple command line error i'm making. i'm making sure all those tools are in the same folder along with a new directory called "recovery" when i run the command but nothing happens. it just flips me back to the same command prompt.
edit: just got this response from etotheipi:
" Nothing is stopping you from doing that. The key data doesn't actually leave the original wallet. It's just copied."
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