Only on the old firmware, before the back door was closed.

Has anyone tried using a hypnotist? It seems like a logical solution to the forgotten password situations.

Has anyone ever tried a hypnotist?

Pretty sure this won't work on a encrypted wallet, correct me if i'm wrong.

Check out my recent thread in technical support.

There doesn't appear to be any funds in the wallet.dat files that I have recovered . I have another hard drive to check and possibly some usb sticks he has, but it's looking like the wallet was overwritten when my brother-in-law reinstalled windows unless he used the other storage devices as well. There are a couple of litecoin wallet files on this drive, do you know what to add to the command for retrieval? I would like to thank you for helping me to figure pywallet out, and it will be very helpful for trying the remaining last chances of retrieval. If I retrieve nothing, i think this thread will be very useful for others in the same boat. Thanks again and if by a miracle I do find some coins I will definitely throw some your way.

Which will find more deleted wallet information on a hard drive?

I presume you haven't opened any of the coin base phishing emails going around?

So balance would not show up even using HD=0 command (assuming it contains some BTC)? Core crashes without that command with recovered wallet.dat. Thanks.

I have a recovered wallet.dat file from an old Bitcoin Core that I have recovered using Pywallet with the kind help of forum member HCP. If I use that wallet.dat in the latest Bitcoin Core with the useHD=0 and rescan options and it is synced, then will it show any Bitcoins that are in there. Thanks.

I ran another recover but added a couple of variations on the password. This is the result i got but i have a feeling i still won't be able to run the dat file in core, or dump it like before. Notice that as it ran the recovery every one of the keys was shown on screen, but i can't scroll back to top of screen to look at them all. I tried to dump the wallet with the new python and packages installed, but it gave the same result as before. I will try to dump this result later sometime, please see screenshots below for new recovery results. Thanks.











Got recovered wallet to run with "If that doesn't work... try starting Bitcoin Core with -usehd=0 command" but i'm thinking i will have to do a rescan, how would i add that command on to core startup. Thanks. ps no rush i know your busy. (edit again!) i added rescan option and waiting for it to finish.

I think everything is installed correctly except one component which i believe to be bsddb which is mentioned on the pywallet thread as being required. At the start of my pywallet it says a mandatory component is missing so i'm thinking it is this. Thanks again.

After re installing python and running those commands i get this.




But with pycrypto i get this at the end of the install attempt.


(Edit) installed visual and pycrypto appears to have installed correctly this time. Will run another recover as soon as i'm able.

Managed to grab a chance to try your suggestion result below.

Thanks a lot for your time and help. I will try these next steps as soon as I get time as I have a mountain of jobs to do at home today and family commitments.

I know that bsddb should be installed with python which I didn't do, I presumed it was included in the pywallet exe maybe that is the problem?

Had a few attempts but getting errors. Screenshot shown of results. Cheers.

One thing I don't understand is that on previous posts where someone has scanned a device it would give a result such as x number of wallets, x number encrypted keys passphrase is correct etc. With the results I got it just said the 102 recovered keys are in the folder. Also will the partial recovery result contain anything useful or is it just the larger .dat file? Thanks for your time, I will have another play tonight when I finish work.

Would installing a pre HD Core work?, and could you tell me what the other recovered files are please ie db.001 and the partial recovery. Thanks for all your help.

Hi again HCP, these are the results from the scan. Which of these do i try in Bitcoin Core please, i realise it's all a long shot but at least i will have tried. Thanks for any reply. Cheers.








(edit) This is the debug when Core closed with error after trying the recovered wallet file.

2017-11-22 20:22:27 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=59, size=48450345, heights=457847...458019, time=2017-03-18...2017-03-19)
2017-11-22 20:22:27 Checking all blk files are present...
2017-11-22 20:22:28 LoadBlockIndexDB: transaction index disabled
2017-11-22 20:22:28 LoadBlockIndexDB: hashBestChain=0000000000000000019a5ed01b75a2d253bedb1ac96db2c2202e482074e01e1c height=457941 date=2017-03-19 08:58:45 progress=0.749998
2017-11-22 20:22:28 init message: Rewinding blocks...
2017-11-22 20:22:29 init message: Verifying blocks...
2017-11-22 20:22:29 Verifying last 6 blocks at level 3
2017-11-22 20:22:29 [0%]...[16%]...[33%]...[50%]...[66%]...[83%]...[99%]...[DONE].
2017-11-22 20:22:31 No coin database inconsistencies in last 7 blocks (10016 transactions)
2017-11-22 20:22:31  block index            9191ms
2017-11-22 20:22:31 init message: Loading wallet...
2017-11-22 20:22:31 nFileVersion = 140200
2017-11-22 20:22:31 Keys: 0 plaintext, 202 encrypted, 0 w/ metadata, 202 total
2017-11-22 20:22:32 Performing wallet upgrade to 60000
2017-11-22 20:22:32

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EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error       
GenerateNewHDMasterKey: AddKeyPubKey failed       
D:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe in Runaway exception       

2017-11-22 20:22:37 CDBEnv::EnvShutdown: Error 22 shutting down database environment: Invalid argument