How to recover btc after windows reinstall - page 6.

felco

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Quote from: morbius55 on June 24, 2017, 07:39:04 AM

Can anyone point me to a guide on using pywallet or a recovery program to attempt getting my btc back from a hard drive that has had windows reinstalled. The drive was removed from the laptop and was used for less than a week after the stupid event. I have bought a hard drive caddy but want to know if i should use a recovery program or can i just use pywallet?. If anyone could point me to a guide that is useable by a computer novice, ie a step by step spoon feed type guide, i would be very grateful. Cheers guys.

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If you have the HDD, I would recommend one piece of software that I have used before(Though not recover DBase Files, that is the kind of file for wallet.dat), here the link: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

The software you want to use is PhotoRec. I would give it a shot. Just remember to save the recovered files in another drive, not the one you are scanning. Good Luck!

morbius55

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Quote from: Lauda on June 24, 2017, 08:30:59 AM

Quote from: morbius55 on June 24, 2017, 08:26:42 AM

Thanks for your reply. So the first step would be to search for wallet.dat? using a recovery program, how could i distinguish between ltc, qrk and btc data?.

They are all named 'wallet.dat', thus I don't believe that you could distinguish unless there is a leftover path. If you recover any wallet.dat file, back it up and throw it into a client(s) to test which it is.

Quote from: morbius55 on June 24, 2017, 08:26:42 AM

I have to try whatever it takes as we are talking about maybe 32btc plus some ltc. cheers. Cry

32 BTC and:
1) Using Windows.
2) Keeping all funds at one machine.
3) Having no other backups.

These are some of the worst security practices that I've seen. Good luck with the recovery.

This is my brother in laws mess up and i am having a go at retrieval for him, and yes i know how stupidly he has acted. Roll Eyes

. Thanks again.

HCP

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pywallet also has a recovery mode for attempting to find deleted wallet files... whether or not it is able to find anything after the drive has been formatted and had the OS reinstalled is another story...

Read more here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-recover-your-deleted-keys-38004

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Quote from: morbius55 on June 24, 2017, 08:26:42 AM

Thanks for your reply. So the first step would be to search for wallet.dat? using a recovery program, how could i distinguish between ltc, qrk and btc data?.

They are all named 'wallet.dat', thus I don't believe that you could distinguish unless there is a leftover path. If you recover any wallet.dat file, back it up and throw it into a client(s) to test which it is.

Quote from: morbius55 on June 24, 2017, 08:26:42 AM

I have to try whatever it takes as we are talking about maybe 32btc plus some ltc. cheers. Cry

32 BTC and:
1) Using Windows.
2) Keeping all funds at one machine.
3) Having no other backups.

These are some of the worst security practices that I've seen. Good luck with the recovery.

morbius55

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Quote from: Lauda on June 24, 2017, 08:10:15 AM

You need a wallet file to use pywallet. It alone, without such a file, is useless. If the drive was overwritten then the chance of recovery is very slim.

For attempting to recover, try one of these:
EaseUs
Recuve

Thanks for your reply. So the first step would be to search for wallet.dat? using a recovery program, how could i distinguish between ltc, qrk and btc data?. I have to try whatever it takes as we are talking about maybe 32btc plus some ltc. cheers. Cry

Lauda

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You need a wallet file to use pywallet. It alone, without such a file, is useless. If the drive was overwritten then the chance of recovery is very slim.

For attempting to recover, try one of these:
EaseUs
Recuve

morbius55

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Can anyone point me to a guide on using pywallet or a recovery program to attempt getting my btc back from a hard drive that has had windows reinstalled. The drive was removed from the laptop and was used for less than a week after the stupid event. I have bought a hard drive caddy but want to know if i should use a recovery program or can i just use pywallet?. If anyone could point me to a guide that is useable by a computer novice, ie a step by step spoon feed type guide, i would be very grateful. Cheers guys.

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