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Title: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 01:35:31 AM Here's what happened. I was running Winxp on my hard drive, partitioned as C and D. The C drive had the operating system/program files. The D drive was used for my files only. I created another partition to install Ubuntu and had it working for a while. I was going to back up my files on the D drive of course, but ..... I figured I'd do it later lol. To make a long story short, at a certain point neither system would boot, so I installed Ubuntu onto the drive wiping out all partitions. I can't seem to find any utility that will allow me to even try to recover files on that drive. Yep .... wallet is on there, along with some other stuff I'd like to get back. Any ideas? Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: Revalin on April 21, 2013, 01:55:17 AM Turn off the computer and quit using it. You don't want to overwrite any more than you already have.
Boot from a rescue CD (your Linux install CD will probably work). Download this: https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/blob/master/pywallet.py . Then run: python pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=/dev/sda --recov_size=2Tio --recov_outputdir=~/.bitcoin (set the 2Tio to the size of your HD) I'm assuming you know your way around Linux a little. If not, ask and we'll walk you through it. Edit: /dev/sda is your drive C. You may want /dev/sdb. Run 'fdisk -l' to see which drive is which. Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 02:19:41 AM Gonna try it .... thx Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 02:57:42 AM OK, I'm booted to USB drive. Here's what I've tried: Not working Quote xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes --- FILES SHOULD BE ON HERE SOMEWHERE 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0003a25b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 304195583 152096768 83 Linux /dev/sda2 304197630 312580095 4191233 5 Extended /dev/sda5 304197632 312580095 4191232 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 15.6 GB, 15610576896 bytes 119 heads, 55 sectors/track, 4658 cylinders, total 30489408 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 8064 30489407 15240672 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ sudo ./pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=/sda1 --recov_size=160Gio --recov_outputdir=~/.bitcoin^C xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ sudo ./pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=/sda1 --recov_size=160Gio --recov_outputdir=~/.bitcoin Can't open /sda1, check the path or try as root xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ sudo ./pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=/sda --recov_size=160Gio --recov_outputdir=~/.bitcoin Can't open /sda, check the path or try as root xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Downloads/pywallet-master$ Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: tiktoc on April 21, 2013, 03:01:00 AM Code:
Then run the comamnd when you are root you youll need the password for the user as sudo will ask for it. Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 03:09:59 AM I must have somehing wrong ... says can't find device. root@xubuntu:/home/xubuntu/Downloads/pywallet-master# ./pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=/sda1 --recov_size=160Gio --recov_outputdir=~/.bitcoin Can't open /sda1, check the path or try as root root@xubuntu:/home/xubuntu/Downloads/pywallet-master# I've tried sda and sda1 Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 03:12:08 AM Fixed the path .... /dev/sda ... it's doin something lol Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 03:17:39 AM Here's a sample of the output ..... doesn't make any sense to me. 21.22/171.80 Go ETA: 03:50:57 21.23/171.80 Go ETA: 03:50:56 21.24/171.80 Go ETA: 03:50:55 21.25/171.80 Go ETA: 03:51:02 21.27/171.80 Go ETA: 03:51:01 21.28/171.80 Go ETA: 03:51:00 21.29/171.80 Go ETA: 03:50:59 21.30/171.80 Go How long will this take to run on a 160GB drive? Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: Malawi on April 21, 2013, 03:47:03 AM I have not much exp with linux, but seems like it's trying to rebuild the filetables, and that estimated total time is about 4 hrs.
Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 03:53:00 AM Is there a good recovery program for Linux? I'm gonna try TestDisk, anyone know of anything better? http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: tiktoc on April 21, 2013, 04:24:34 AM Did you let pywallet finish? try not to be impatient let it run over night
Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 05:47:10 AM No I didn't let it finish, I was looking for a file recovery program, I need more than the wallet file. Couldn't find one that I could get to work. Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: tiktoc on April 21, 2013, 05:49:03 AM If its important send to someone, will cost you a couple grand normally to get it recovered.
Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 05:53:27 AM Nope, nothing that important.....would be nice to get the files back tho:) There's a ton of recovery software for windows, just need to find one that will work for Linux. Any suggestions? Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: deepceleron on April 21, 2013, 06:27:14 AM If the installation of Linux included a full format (probably 20 minutes of formatting on a 160G drive), then all hope is lost.
The pywallet offline scan instructions that were given scan your entire raw hard drive looking for private keys, if it can't find bitcoin keys anywhere on the disk (and the wallet was unencrypted) then there is no point spending the effort to recover other stuff. Title: Re: Installed linux over windows drive with my wallet.dat Post by: pccs on April 21, 2013, 06:34:48 AM I can't remember if I reformatted or not, I know I deleted the existing partitions and made it one large drive. |