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Title: Need help recovering corrupted wallet.dat File Post by: JoeW44 on April 03, 2013, 02:45:27 PM So a few weeks back I formatted my HDD and reinstalled windows. Yesterday i realized i forgot to backup my wallet and used Recuva to try to recover my bitcoins. It found 7 different wallet.dat files all of which say they are corrupted when i try to run bitcoin. I have searched and tried to find tutorials about how to fix the corrupted file but all of the tutorials want me to use python and i have no idea what it is or how to use it.
Is there a reputable member of the community that i could be pointed towards that i could send my wallet.dat files to to fix for me? I would pay the user upon completion. Thanks Title: Re: Need help recovering corrupted wallet.dat File Post by: whiskers75 on April 03, 2013, 03:23:30 PM Try the following:
1. MAKE COPIES OF ALL YOUR CORRUPTED wallet.dat FILES AND PUT THEM SOMEWHERE SAFE! 2. Move (A COPY OF) one [wallet.dat file] into it's usual place 3. Run bitcoind -salvagewallet (info: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1895) I cannot emphasize any more: MAKE BACKUPS OF EVERYTHING IN CASE I HAVE MESSED UP AND THIS COMPLETELY DESTROYES YOUR wallet.dat! Title: Re: Need help recovering corrupted wallet.dat File Post by: deepceleron on April 03, 2013, 04:11:14 PM Turn off computer, pull hard drive, do not use it if you want any chance of recovering data.
You will want to perform offline full hard drive scan for private keys, which will take many hours: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38004.0 Title: Re: Need help recovering corrupted wallet.dat File Post by: Masqurin on April 03, 2013, 04:30:40 PM Make sure you're not writing any new data to the drive, mount it in read-only if possible. I could take a look at the files you recovered, PM me.
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