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Title: Help retrieve wallet data
Post by: pghmyn on November 25, 2018, 11:39:56 PM
I was installed AutoCAD on my laptop. At the end of installation, it went to restart. A Windows update started during this restart, and it corrupted the boot drive. There was no recovery or reset that worked.

The laptop has two drives. An M.2 SSD boot drive that help the OS. Then a 2.5" standard drive that was used for storage. I took the M.2 drive out, and put it into an M.2 to USB adapter. I can not find any of the OS files on this SSD. I turned on viewing of hidden files, but still nothing that remotely looks like usable data can be found.

I had my RVN being mined to the wallet on this laptop, and I'm assuming there is no way to recover that wallet keys without getting to the AppData folder that the QT wallet saves to. Can anyone help me with if there is another way to get to this wallet, or if there is a way to read this SSD?


Title: Re: Help retrieve wallet data
Post by: BitMaxz on November 25, 2018, 11:49:07 PM
Have you tried to put the SSD on another desktop computer if you have extra with sata cable and power cable.
Maybe your M2 to USB adapter might be defective  or not supported on SSD drive. If you have an extra desktop computer you can put your SSD as your drive D: and you can check your drive D if it's formatted or not by checking it on properties. If it's not formatted you are lucky and your RVN wallet still there.

If your SSD is formatted I don't know if you can still recover it with file recovery.


Title: Re: Help retrieve wallet data
Post by: pghmyn on November 25, 2018, 11:54:46 PM
https://ibb.co/Y0FC3BX

This is all that shows up when I access the drive with the M.2 to USB adapter.

Does this look right for what should show up? Does it look like anything is missing?