Topic: I need Help finding or recovering bitcoins off an old hard drive - page 4. (Read 2519 times)

I know from experience that when dealing with older data, you can never assume anything, you have to do analysis without making any assumptions.
Many people told me yes they made it in this or that application and when i scanned the drives it turned out it was a completely different story and in some cases even a different coin or a completely different password not containing even one word they was sure it contained.

The right approach is to analyze everything, regardless of what the customer claims.
 

Did you read the quote in my post?

It's NOT a .csv from Electrum... it's a .csv exported from Bitcoin Core... it's pretty much useless as far as wallet/coin recovery is concerned.


No. Pywallet creates wallet.dat's in the BerkeleyDB format that Bitcoin Core uses. These files are NOT compatible with Electrum. Electrum uses an entirely different wallet file format (JSON text with optional encryption).

Please check HCP's post:

And especially this:


You need your private keys to spend any coins.
The transaction data simply does not contain this information. And it won't help you "recovering" it. Unfortunately it won't help you recovering any funds at all.

So r u saying that if I download Electrum it would be easier to open these files created by PYwallet (Jack Jack)?
is it a simple copy and paste or drag and drop?
 or do I have to know coding, programming, or how to use CMD?

This depends if that csv file was made in electrum somewhere in the past, you better not trash it because it will contain all of your private key's.



Also you can import them in Electrum.
So if unsure about old data and the way it was generated, it's always better to keep all options open.

If you have recovered "wallet.dat" files... just open them with a fully sync Bitcoin Core... You can either shutdown Bitcoin Core, switch "wallet.dat" in datadir, restart Bitcoin Core... or you can shutdown Bitcoin Core and start it from the commandline specifying which wallet file to read using the -wallet option:

A ".csv" file is simply text file in "comma separate values" format... You should be able to open it in any text editor to review the contents. Also, any spreadsheet app like Excel should be able to open it as well (and possibly make it slightly easier to read)

Even if you could import it back into Bitcoin Core (note: you can't), it wouldn't be much of much use in attempting to recover any funds... it's simply a list of transaction data (ie. transactionIDs and amounts etc)... it won't contain any private keys or anything like that.

   So if I got to scan quite a few hard drives, and ended up with a few partial recovered wallets, or potential wallets how can I open them??
I don't know what program to use to open the wallets/ partial recovered wallets......)
I downloaded the whole blockchain on a fresh PC and wondering if I can open them or plug them into the block chain to see if they are viable!!

when I clicked export transactions from bitcoin core it created a .csv file. how can i read its content and can i reverse it ( import to the wallet/ bitcoin core) from a potential previously created wallet?

No, no luck!!
no wallets no keys :-(
Have to scan a couple of flash drives ( one is totally dead) then read every shred of paper in my place just in case if I have any hints written/ printed. that address u mentioned Looks like it's every ones ghost address: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ghost-address-1ht7xu2ngenf7d4yocz2sacnnlw7rk8d4e-appeared-in-my-walletdat-1225430

someone said I should still scan the empty potential wallets ( 2 potential wallets found with 0 keys) not sure how good of advice this is?(maybe the program missed a key) I don't quite get it, no keys is no money/ coins right?? so why bother scan against the block chain??

OP: is 1HT7xU2Ngenf7D4yocz2SAcnNLW7rK8d4E your address? It was first funded in 2011, but it's also had some substantial amounts sent to it more recently (nearly $15k USD last year), which doesn't really fit your story.

Any luck recovering the funds yet?

Hello There,

    to avoid confusion, would you please start your own thread discussing your potential lost wallet circumstances!

Thank you and good luck.

If you still have your phone, then yes you can.

/KX

Do you have the wallet file saved with yourself anywhere?
Do you have the phrase / seed saved with you? Which wallet was that exactly? Did he put any password to protect the wallet? If yes, do you know it?

And there's nothing such a Bitcoin account, but Bitcoin wallets and addresses.

About four years ago, I bought my friend some donuts. He downloaded the bitcoin wallet app on my amazon blu phone and gave me $10 worth of bitcoin instead of cash. Since then I have switched over to an iphone, and completely forgot about my bitcoin account until recently. Is there a way to recover my bitcoin account? I know nothing about anything.

OOOOOk,
Good news and Bad news!!

 the good is that I think I figured out how to make it work ( hope it's properly working)

was the wrong (PY wallet) directory, supposed to be pywallet-master not pywallet-master-win files!

tried it on a flash drive:
C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-master>python pywallet.py --recover --recov_size=32.0Gio --recov_device E: --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: *********
Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
0.10 Go read
0.20 Go read
0.30 Go read
0.40 Go read
0.50 G


31.00 Go read

Read 31.0 Go in 14.0 minutes

Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys
The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct


Importing:


The new wallet C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet/recovered_wallet_1******.dat contains the 0 recovered key

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-master>

**Although I specified only 465 GB it went through all the drive 500GB**

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-master>python pywallet.py --recover --recov_size=465.0Gio --recov_device C: --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: *********
Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
0.10 Go read
0.20 Go read
0.30 Go read
0.40 Go read
0.50 Go read

498.80 Go read
498.90 Go read
499.00 Go read
499.10 Go read
499.20 Go read

Read 499.3 Go in 165.4 minutes

Found 2 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys
The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct


Importing:


The new wallet C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet/recovered_wallet_1******.dat contains the 0 recovered key

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-master>




C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-master>python pywallet.py --recover --recov_size=465.0Gio --recov_device E: --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: *****

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
0.10 Go read
0.20 Go read
0.30 Go read
0.40 Go read



399.30 Go read
399.40 Go read
399.50 Go read
399.60 Go read
399.70 Go read
399.80 Go read
399.90 Go read
400.00 Go read

Read 400.1 Go in 445.7 minutes

Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys
The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct


Importing:


The new wallet C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet/recovered_wallet_1******.dat contains the 0 recovered key

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-master>


The Bad news is the mother of old backups found nothing!!!

will try my other hard drives later, and cancel my Lexus order for now!!!

so do all paths and directories looks good?

Yes, I do run it as an admin and as a user, I found a video to switch permissions for local disk to full control will try it!
I try to scan C and a flash drive as well  ( just want to test/ properly run the program to apply it to an external drive later)
Do u recommend me to keep tweaking the current till it hopefully works,  restarting a fresh install on another fresh windows 10 or  downgrading to windows 7 and reinstalling everything??
Thank you,

It is probably more likely due to Windows 10 locking down the root directory of C: in an attempt to prevent viruses/malware from doing "bad things"™ to the system drive... and/or accessing privileged information (ie. other users data/info etc).

Where you running as Administrator? If not, then try that. Also, I'd recommend not trying to scan your C: unless you have a really good reason to. Try scanning a small USB thumb drive first.

You are right, when It said passphrase I assumed it's the 12 words, my bad!

 I changed the Potential recovery folder name to avoid conflict ( no space now)

Changed the directory and commands with the following similar results: ( it now said permission denied instead of Error: (2, 'No such file or directory) now it's Can't open C:, check the path or try as root
  Error: (13, 'Permission denied')

Then displayed the Path and directory to see where the conflict may be coming from ( probably user error wrong download or install......).



C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device C: --recov_size=465.0Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: 123

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
Can't open C:, check the path or try as root
  Error: (13, 'Permission denied')

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>path
PATH=C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;;C:\Program Files (x86)\AOMEI Backupper;C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is D6FD-F2FA

 Directory of C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master

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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.950]
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C:\Users\Hoss>path
PATH=C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;;C:\Program Files (x86)\AOMEI Backupper;C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin

C:\Users\Hoss>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is D6FD-F2FA

 Directory of C:\Users\Hoss

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C:\Users\Hoss>


hope this have enough info to resolve the problem,
Thank you so very much.

Yeah... it's just the stupid complicated thing you need to do when "escaping" special characters in programming languages! You can ignore all this "gobbledy gook"... it's correct.



NOTE: It appears you are confusing a wallet encryption password (aka the "passphrase" that pywallet is prompting you to enter)... for a 12 word mnemonic recovery phrase. Bitcoin Core has never used 12 word mnemonic phrases. What pywallet is asking you for when it says "Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys" is simply a "password" that will be used to encrypt the wallet.dat file that it is going to create... this can be anything you like, like abc123 or password123 etc... but you need to be able to remember it, because if pywallet is successful in finding private keys... then to use the wallet.dat within Bitcoin Core to recover your coins (or to extract the private keys from it) you will need the password!



Anyway... onto the root cause of your current issue...
I apologise, I think I originally set you wrong with the device naming... DO NOT use the "\" char... so when you specify --recov_device, it should simply be C: or D: or X: or whatever

If you include the \ character, then the script will get confused and give you the "Can't open C:\, check the path or try as root" type error. Sorry!

Anyway, based on what you have so your command should be:



NOTE: I would recommend that you don't use spaces in directory names... that could cause unexpected results. Also, you need to make sure that the output directory that you specify exists BEFORE you run the pywallet scan... otherwise it will fail at the end with an error like this:

so in the script it's self:   https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/blob/master/pywallet.py
line 4851:

4850       if len(device) in [2,3] and device[1]==':':
4851          device="\\\\.\\"+device

is this normal? are the \\\\.\\ out of place and confusing the program???

I have another copy of pywallet and the same command is on line 4778


here are the commands: ( PS** the passphrase is made up, wont be used ever after this operation)

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.950]
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C:\Users\Hoss>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device C:\ --recov_size=465.0Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: push costa surge wrote soil hospital derived migrate vacation arts fremont analyzed

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
Can't open \\.\C:\, check the path or try as root
  Error: (2, 'No such file or directory')

C:\Users\Hoss>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device D:\ --recov_size=32.0Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: push costa surge wrote soil hospital derived migrate vacation arts fremont analyzed

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
Can't open \\.\D:\, check the path or try as root
  Error: (13, 'Permission denied')


when I change the directory as advised earlier same error but with only one proper (\) :


C:\Users\Hoss>cd C:\hoss\documents\pywallet-win-files-master
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Users\Hoss> cd C:\users\hoss\documents\pywallet-win-files-master

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device D:\ --recov_size=32.0Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: push costa surge wrote soil hospital derived migrate vacation arts fremont analyzed

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
Can't open D:\, check the path or try as root
  Error: (13, 'Permission denied')

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device C:\ --recov_size=465.0Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: push costa surge wrote soil hospital derived migrate vacation arts fremont analyzed

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:

Starting recovery.
Can't open C:\, check the path or try as root
  Error: (2, 'No such file or directory')

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>

Could you post the actual command you are trying to use?

If i remember rightly you have to use unix style paths so '/'s instead of '\', even when using it in windows. So both --recov_device and --recov_outputdir would need to be '/'s not '\'s.

C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>python pywallet.py --recover --recov_size=XXX.XGio --recov_device X:/ --recov_outputdir X:/Where/to/put/found/stuff