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Title: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: arallmuus on February 18, 2015, 02:35:32 PM Hello, I dont know if this section is the place for this question but is there any chance to retrieve a lost wallet?
my computer got virus and i formatted it, i backup all my bitcoins to paperwallet, but i forgot about my wallet that i use to receive payment from bitmixer, i only got the address but the wallet identifier and the secret words is lost btw Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: shorena on February 18, 2015, 02:50:41 PM Hello, I dont know if this section is the place for this question but is there any chance to retrieve a lost wallet? my computer got virus and i formatted it, i backup all my bitcoins to paperwallet, but i forgot about my wallet that i use to receive payment from bitmixer, i only got the address but the wallet identifier and the secret words is lost btw Sounds like you are using blockchain.info. Did you use a mail address when you signed up? If so you could contact their support. You should have also gotten backups via mail. Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: padrino on February 18, 2015, 02:51:53 PM I assume from your use of a secret phrase and paper wallets you are using Electrum, Armory, or Blockchain.info? In short without the phrase to reconstitute the private key, or private key itself you don't really have any reasonable options if you reformatted already unless it's Blockchain.info and you supplied the backup info they request.
Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: shorena on February 18, 2015, 02:56:41 PM I assume from your use of a secret phrase and paper wallets you are using Electrum, Armory, or Blockchain.info? In short without the phrase to reconstitute the private key, or private key itself you don't really have any reasonable options if you reformatted already unless it's Blockchain.info and you supplied the backup info they request. Formating is rarely deleting data. Even deleting is not deleting data for most modern OS. Data recovery is costly if done by a professional or cumbersomeif done on your own though. Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: arallmuus on February 18, 2015, 03:10:05 PM Hello, I dont know if this section is the place for this question but is there any chance to retrieve a lost wallet? my computer got virus and i formatted it, i backup all my bitcoins to paperwallet, but i forgot about my wallet that i use to receive payment from bitmixer, i only got the address but the wallet identifier and the secret words is lost btw Sounds like you are using blockchain.info. Did you use a mail address when you signed up? If so you could contact their support. You should have also gotten backups via mail. yes im using blockchain.info for this, any other options rather than from the email address?because i dont use email address for signing up there I assume from your use of a secret phrase and paper wallets you are using Electrum, Armory, or Blockchain.info? In short without the phrase to reconstitute the private key, or private key itself you don't really have any reasonable options if you reformatted already unless it's Blockchain.info and you supplied the backup info they request. well i am using blockchain.info in this matter Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: shorena on February 18, 2015, 05:23:43 PM Hello, I dont know if this section is the place for this question but is there any chance to retrieve a lost wallet? my computer got virus and i formatted it, i backup all my bitcoins to paperwallet, but i forgot about my wallet that i use to receive payment from bitmixer, i only got the address but the wallet identifier and the secret words is lost btw Sounds like you are using blockchain.info. Did you use a mail address when you signed up? If so you could contact their support. You should have also gotten backups via mail. yes im using blockchain.info for this, any other options rather than from the email address?because i dont use email address for signing up there -snip- None that I am aware of, sorry. Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: nuno12345 on February 18, 2015, 09:46:20 PM Hello, I dont know if this section is the place for this question but is there any chance to retrieve a lost wallet? my computer got virus and i formatted it, i backup all my bitcoins to paperwallet, but i forgot about my wallet that i use to receive payment from bitmixer, i only got the address but the wallet identifier and the secret words is lost btw 1-Stop using that hard drive. 2-Get an external HDD case. 3-Put the HDD into the case and connect to a computer with large amount of space available. 4-Download getdataback. 5-Assuming its finding "formated" files browse to Users/user/AppData/bitcoin/ Electrum: Users/AppData/Roaming/Electrum/wallets Linux: /root/.bitcoin 6-Copy wallet.dat (Electrum: default_wallet) to your current OS. (if getdataback is trial you cant copy but you can view the file, select all and create a new file with this content, this will work if its an electrum wallet if its bitcoin you need to somehow copy the hex data instead of the ascii and use eg HxD to generate ascii from hex). 7-Go to the same folder, windows/linux/electrum, and backup your current wallet. 8-Paste the recovered wallet in there and run bitcoin-qt/electrum. 9-If the data is not corrupted your done. EDIT: Just noticed this was a blockchain.info wallet so I guess it doesn't apply but ill keep the answer here so it can help others :) Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: arallmuus on February 19, 2015, 10:41:55 AM Hello, I dont know if this section is the place for this question but is there any chance to retrieve a lost wallet? my computer got virus and i formatted it, i backup all my bitcoins to paperwallet, but i forgot about my wallet that i use to receive payment from bitmixer, i only got the address but the wallet identifier and the secret words is lost btw Sounds like you are using blockchain.info. Did you use a mail address when you signed up? If so you could contact their support. You should have also gotten backups via mail. yes im using blockchain.info for this, any other options rather than from the email address?because i dont use email address for signing up there -snip- None that I am aware of, sorry. ahh i see, thanks for the help, i call it a loss then Hello, I dont know if this section is the place for this question but is there any chance to retrieve a lost wallet? my computer got virus and i formatted it, i backup all my bitcoins to paperwallet, but i forgot about my wallet that i use to receive payment from bitmixer, i only got the address but the wallet identifier and the secret words is lost btw 1-Stop using that hard drive. 2-Get an external HDD case. 3-Put the HDD into the case and connect to a computer with large amount of space available. 4-Download getdataback. 5-Assuming its finding "formated" files browse to Users/user/AppData/bitcoin/ Electrum: Users/AppData/Roaming/Electrum/wallets Linux: /root/.bitcoin 6-Copy wallet.dat (Electrum: default_wallet) to your current OS. (if getdataback is trial you cant copy but you can view the file, select all and create a new file with this content, this will work if its an electrum wallet if its bitcoin you need to somehow copy the hex data instead of the ascii and use eg HxD to generate ascii from hex). 7-Go to the same folder, windows/linux/electrum, and backup your current wallet. 8-Paste the recovered wallet in there and run bitcoin-qt/electrum. 9-If the data is not corrupted your done. EDIT: Just noticed this was a blockchain.info wallet so I guess it doesn't apply but ill keep the answer here so it can help others :) quoted this so that others can see it for future needs, thankyou anyway Title: Re: Retrieve a lost wallet Post by: IXcrispyXI on February 22, 2015, 09:58:57 AM go to thepiratebay or other torrent site and get data recovery software
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