Title: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 28, 2012, 09:00:09 PM Can anyone help me? I now reinstalled my windows, and installed bitcoin client, but I can't see my 1.03 coin in my wallet. I have one of my old wallet adress, how to recover coins?
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: bitcoinvideos on November 28, 2012, 09:03:13 PM Where is your backed up .dat file? You did back up the .dat file right?
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: Accountant on November 28, 2012, 09:03:51 PM lol. unless u made a back-up, its gone bro
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 28, 2012, 09:04:29 PM lol I have no backup date, partition resized + formated :D
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: bitcoinvideos on November 28, 2012, 09:05:04 PM You can use the windows program recuva and do a deep scan for the file. You might get lucky.
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: Akka on November 28, 2012, 09:05:19 PM If you haven't made a backup of your wallet.dat File your coins are gone and nobody can help you.
Your address will only enable you to view you lost coins, sorry. If you made only a quick format and not a real one, than there is still (very, very little) hope, with using a recovery tool. In that case don't install anything or copy any files. Don't use any discspace until you have gone over it with such a tool. Try http://www.piriform.com/recuva as stated above and try to find a file called wallet.dat Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: 247saver on November 28, 2012, 09:19:46 PM There is a tool (at least one) that will scan a formated hard drive for bitcoins, it is not guaranteed either. I used it and recovered most of my public and some private keys, unfortunately not the ones holding the bitcoin :| I used a linux tool, but I'm sure there's a windows one, if not, make a linux boot thumbdrive and D/l it. I am quite sure this was the one I used: http://www.btcnn.com/2011/09/recovering-lost-due-to-format-bitcoin.html Hope that helps. Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: notme on November 28, 2012, 09:33:41 PM There is a tool (at least one) that will scan a formated hard drive for bitcoins, it is not guaranteed either. I used it and recovered most of my public and some private keys, unfortunately not the ones holding the bitcoin :| I used a linux tool, but I'm sure there's a windows one, if not, make a linux boot thumbdrive and D/l it. I am quite sure this was the one I used: http://www.btcnn.com/2011/09/recovering-lost-due-to-format-bitcoin.html Hope that helps. There is a good chance the data is still there, but the metadata (filename, timestamps, etc) is certainly gone. The above tool will help, but you should shut everything down and boot up a linux cd or thumbdrive. Do not write to your disk at all or you risk overwriting your keys. The address is only the public portion of the key. It is the private part that you need to recover to be able to spend the bitcoins. Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: bitcoinvideos on November 28, 2012, 10:14:13 PM Yes it is quite possible the data will end up being corrupted anyway. Speaking of which...time to go make an extra backup lol.
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 04:11:25 PM didn't found wallet.dat :(
so that was it :( maybe the linux thing Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: bitcoinvideos on November 29, 2012, 04:18:49 PM Sorry man that totally sucks. Give the USB bootable drive a shot and see if there is any low level recovery you can do. Although figure in how much time vs effort = reward this is worth. Can you make more than $12 / hour doing something else? If so do that and chalk it up to bad luck.
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 04:45:00 PM bitcoinvideos. hah, that linux thing can't work for me
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo wget http://makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover --2012-11-29 16:34:39-- http://makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover Resolving makomk.com... 193.33.179.169 Connecting to makomk.com|193.33.179.169|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2460131 (2,3M) [text/plain] Saving to: `wallet-recover' 100%[======================================>] 2.460.131 157K/s in 15s 2012-11-29 16:34:55 (156 KB/s) - `wallet-recover' saved [2460131/2460131] ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ chmod +x wallet-recover chmod: changing permissions of `wallet-recover': Operation not permitted ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chmod +x wallet-recover ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./wallet_recover recovered-wallet.dat sudo: ./wallet_recover: command not found ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dir Desktop Képek Nyilvános Videók Zenék Dokumentumok Letöltések Sablonok wallet-recover ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./wallet_recover recovered-wallet.dat sudo: ./wallet_recover: command not found ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./wallet-recover recovered-wallet.dat sudo: unable to execute ./wallet-recover: No such file or directory Your viewpoint is great! But in my country I can do 11$ / 10 hour work so I think I should give another few shot for this :D Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: notme on November 29, 2012, 04:59:13 PM bitcoinvideos. hah, that linux thing can't work for me ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo wget http://makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover --2012-11-29 16:34:39-- http://makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover Resolving makomk.com... 193.33.179.169 Connecting to makomk.com|193.33.179.169|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2460131 (2,3M) [text/plain] Saving to: `wallet-recover' 100%[======================================>] 2.460.131 157K/s in 15s 2012-11-29 16:34:55 (156 KB/s) - `wallet-recover' saved [2460131/2460131] ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ chmod +x wallet-recover chmod: changing permissions of `wallet-recover': Operation not permitted ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chmod +x wallet-recover ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./wallet_recover recovered-wallet.dat sudo: ./wallet_recover: command not found ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dir Desktop Képek Nyilvános Videók Zenék Dokumentumok Letöltések Sablonok wallet-recover ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./wallet_recover recovered-wallet.dat sudo: ./wallet_recover: command not found ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./wallet-recover recovered-wallet.dat sudo: unable to execute ./wallet-recover: No such file or directory Your viewpoint is great! But in my country I can do 11$ / 10 hour work so I think I should give another few shot for this :D That blog post isn't quite right.... sudo rm wallet-recover wget http://makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover chmod +x wallet-recover sudo ./wallet-recover <device> recovered-wallet.dat where <device> is your hard disk (likely /dev/sda if you only have one drive) Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: Gabi on November 29, 2012, 05:16:38 PM Lol i hope he is trolling us
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 05:28:31 PM I'm not a troll I really got the problem.
Still exist ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ wget http://makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover --2012-11-29 17:25:37-- http://makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover Resolving makomk.com... 193.33.179.169 Connecting to makomk.com|193.33.179.169|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2460131 (2,3M) [text/plain] Saving to: `wallet-recover' 100%[======================================>] 2.460.131 157K/s in 15s 2012-11-29 17:25:52 (156 KB/s) - `wallet-recover' saved [2460131/2460131] ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ chmod +x wallet-recover ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./wallet-recover /dev/sda recovered-wallet.dat sudo: unable to execute ./wallet-recover: No such file or directory tried sda1, and others, but don't work for me :( Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: bitcoinvideos on November 29, 2012, 05:41:16 PM Lol i hope he is trolling us Do you think he would troll us for 1 bitcoin? I think he's being truthful. Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 05:47:56 PM there it is the file
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -l total 2416 drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 80 2012-11-29 17:23 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 2012-11-29 17:23 Dokumentumok drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 2012-11-29 17:23 Képek drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 2012-11-29 17:23 Letöltések drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 2012-11-29 17:23 Nyilvános drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 2012-11-29 17:23 Sablonok drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 2012-11-29 17:23 Videók -rwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 2460131 2011-07-01 20:42 wallet-recover drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 40 2012-11-29 17:23 Zenék ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 06:26:37 PM ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/sda
/dev/sda ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1 ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2 ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/sda3 /dev/sda3 ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/sda4 ls: cannot access /dev/sda4: No such file or directory ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/hd* ls: cannot access /dev/hd*: No such file or directory ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/hda ls: cannot access /dev/hda: No such file or directory ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/hd1 ls: cannot access /dev/hd1: No such file or directory Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: Roxyoursox on November 29, 2012, 06:48:34 PM wow GL to you this sucks I am glad I read this post though I was thinking it was the program its self not just my computer that stored my coins >.<
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 06:51:48 PM Yeah Roxy I though like you :) And hopefully I sold 6 coins a few weeks ago :D
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 07:31:26 PM ok created that .sig file, in options I select custom file format. Now this will run 12 hour :D
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: hashkey on November 29, 2012, 07:37:00 PM Poor bitcoins :( If you would be using an untrusted application to dig your HDD for your wallet.dat, make sure you're not connected on the Internet too.
Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 29, 2012, 11:15:28 PM I don't know how but this stuff done the work earlier. I see my disc is full with 168 gb maybe that the answer :DD but have no wallet.dat just somethings like that
f30752848.dat and all filenames this character and number combinations... can I use this files, or go to I don't care mode and do mining onward? :D Title: Re: Windows reinstall Post by: palinko on November 30, 2012, 06:35:23 AM how can you try? I don't care if you steal, least the coins back in the economy and not sit there :D
I don't know which is these files, or what is good for, but look: http://i49.tinypic.com/34hgsn4.png |