Topic: I need Help finding or recovering bitcoins off an old hard drive - page 6. (Read 2473 times)

I would like to add that LoyceV would be a great option to help you out. Loyce if you get a piece of the pie shoot me a crumb
Im not remoting with "anyone" i have trust issues.

I second that and say it again BE CAREFULL! maybe consult here about who your trusting with said task first.

If you find a private key that way, the person with remote access will instantly see your private key on his screen. Be very careful who you trust!

""I am very primitive when it comes to computers do not know coding, Python or any other PC language just a simple Windows operator!""

I dont know how I was supposed to interpret that and my apologies,
Team viewer is a remote access gui based tool that agreed upon parties can gain access to your system while you watch them work/configure/fix.
It looks a lot like a ghost is using your computer when its in use.

What is team viewer?? This sounds intriguing 🤔

BTW I didn’t say not proficient!! I totally don’t know anything about python, thought I can manage to install/run the program on my own, when/ if I find the coins then I certainly would give someone a sizable thank you gift/ token of appreciation for the actual recovery to use in a new wallet.

Why dont you get someone on here thats trusted to help you out via team viewer offer them a %.
I imagine if you bought it in its infancy you have a pretty good amount.
I only suggest this because you mentioned you where not very proficient and sometimes this stuff can be complicated on windows.
Be careful who you pick to help on this.

The failure seems to be on Visual C++, I would recommend a clean install, maybe create a VM or USB boot stick and start over. Its really simple to install above libs.

so i've been stuck at this for a week now!!

C:\Users\Hoss>pip install pywallet
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Collecting pywallet
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.8.0 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from pywallet) (1.12.0)
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Collecting two1>=3.10.8 (from pywallet)
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Collecting sha256 (from two1>=3.10.8->pywallet)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/04/98/e2d70dc0af14a35ee62c5f6146120f8735e43e1de5daf633c61a2cdd8e67/sha256-0.1.tar.gz
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Collecting tabulate (from two1>=3.10.8->pywallet)
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Building wheels for collected packages: sha256
  Building wheel for sha256 (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: 'c:\python27\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'c:\\users\\hoss\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-install-fib0vz\\sha256\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'c:\\users\\hoss\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-install-fib0vz\\sha256\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d 'c:\users\hoss\appdata\local\temp\pip-wheel-4nvfv1' --python-tag cp27
       cwd: c:\users\hoss\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-fib0vz\sha256\
  Complete output (11 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'sha256' extension
  creating build
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-2.7
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release
  C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\amd64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -Ic:\python27\include -Ic:\python27\PC /Tcsha256.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\sha256.obj
  sha256.c
  sha256.c(255) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdint.h': No such file or directory
  error: command 'C:\\Users\\Hoss\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Common\\Microsoft\\Visual C++ for Python\\9.0\\VC\\Bin\\amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for sha256
  Running setup.py clean for sha256
Failed to build sha256
Installing collected packages: sha256, tabulate, two1, pywallet
  Running setup.py install for sha256 ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\python27\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'c:\\users\\hoss\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-install-fib0vz\\sha256\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'c:\\users\\hoss\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-install-fib0vz\\sha256\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'c:\users\hoss\appdata\local\temp\pip-record-5cremh\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile
         cwd: c:\users\hoss\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-fib0vz\sha256\
    Complete output (11 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'sha256' extension
    creating build
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-2.7
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release
    C:\Users\Hoss\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\amd64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -Ic:\python27\include -Ic:\python27\PC /Tcsha256.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\sha256.obj
    sha256.c
    sha256.c(255) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdint.h': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Users\\Hoss\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Common\\Microsoft\\Visual C++ for Python\\9.0\\VC\\Bin\\amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'c:\python27\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'c:\\users\\hoss\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-install-fib0vz\\sha256\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'c:\\users\\hoss\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-install-fib0vz\\sha256\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'c:\users\hoss\appdata\local\temp\pip-record-5cremh\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full command output.



trying to install sha256 but don't know how!
don't know what else i should download/ do!!
help please???
Thank you all.

oh, thank you,
are these the files that may help with all the problems I'm having??

yes it's downloaded, I didn't know that pip is the magic word for everything python!!
I met with someone Tuesday that helped me download ecdsa, and pycrypto however ran out of time at the bsddb3 ( Error: cannot find a version that satisfy the request) I tried as well with no luck however finally managed to install bsddb (without the 3)

now up against another long error has to do with sha256!  fatal error cannot open include file: stdint.h no such file or directory!!

our forum friend Avast12 suggests I enable windows optional feature online windows subsystem Linux however I can't do that either!!!
every time I feel so close I find out I'm so far!!
using windows makes us too spoiled/ dependent on the machine click= result.
a whole new found appreciation and respect to programmers and developers.

But where did you get the file from ?
The .js extension means it is a javascript file. But pywallet is a python (.py file).




No, python 2.7 is correct.




Yes, you can give pywallet a drive to search for possible private keys.




It looks wherever you want it to look at. Usually you just give it a whole drive / partition as  parameter with the --recover and --recov_device parameter


Can you verify that you have downloaded pywallet.py from https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/blob/master/pywallet.py ?

I get this error when I drag and drop the Jackjack file into python!

If I copy and paste the script into python it takes a few seconds filling in all the lines then disappear/ close on its own!
 Reading the first few lines of the code it refers to python 2.2 I have 2.7, is this wrong? did I download the wrong one?
Avast12 insists on finding wallet.dat via recovery software, which I’ve been trying for a few month now on and off so that’s a no go!!
I thought jackjack bypass the wallet file and get to the keys, am I wrong?
Last question does Jackjack look into windows backup/ restore files as well??

Where does the javascript file jackjack.js come from ?
And how do you call it ? Via double-click or command line ?

I hope you two get it fixed.

But do not share any sensitive information with anyone! Avast12 changed his password last week.
Doesn't have to mean something.. but better be safe than sorry.

so I'm down to only one error msg!
syntaxerror: invalid syntax
>>>C:\users\PCname\desktop\jackjack.js
file "" line 1
hope to resolve this one last obstacle soon!!

BTW: A fellow from the community here offered to help me step by step, hope he can solve it with me.
Thanks in advance Avast12.

ooook, so the pip wasn't even installed so twisted was downloaded but not quit installed!
now I downloaded and ran pip
downloaded and ran twisted
in the process of downloading Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7.
I think I'm almost there, 
wish me luck.

If it is possible? Yes. Read the entire thread.
Depending on how much you have used your hard drive since you lost access to your bitcoins you might extract the needed information using the suggestions provided here.

But open a new thread and explain exactly what happened.

Were you able to do the following without any errors ?



According to the 'syntax error', it seems python twisted is not installed yet ?

Could you outline what exactly you have installed already ?

is it real to recover your btc  it from 2009\2010? 

I'm using windows, but guess just to verify the presence of the wallet I will have to use python to run the Jack Jack wallet script. then the recovery will be a whole different process.

that's my problem my friend!!
I don't know what pip, dependencies, parameters, ......... are, or how they work, or even what they mean!!!
so slowly but surly downloading what I can, but someone told me I will have to rewrite the script to match where I downloaded the programs ( the path has to match) so I will have to redo (uninstall/ reinstall) all what I did so far or go through the script to reidentify the path where I have Python, twisted....

so far I'm at:
unexpected indent, there are packages available in the repositories of:file, line1
and syntaxerror: invalid syntax Debian and Ubuntu as python-twisted for python2
again have no clue what that means but still trying.

What os are you planning to use for the recovery, i can write out a step by step as I've done this recently for a client in New York.

/KX