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wanted to give an update as to what I did so that if anyone in future that has this kind of problem can take this route. I made an image of the hard drive and tried many different things which were suggested on this forum none of them worked for me. I sent my hard drive the original into a company called secure data recovery they are located in Ohio I believe. They ran a free diagnostics test on my hard drive and gave me a quote of a little under $2000. I pre authorized the charge via a credit card. They gave me a 5-11 business day window to complete the raw recovery. On completion they charged my card and sent me my request file "wallet.dat" via a dropbox. This worked great and must say they did an awesome job highly recommend this company!
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I am paying a professional company to do a raw recovery on my hard drive. Question what exactly is needed to recover my bitcoins from bitcoin core? wallet.dat file only?
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"It is designed for the case where you already know most of your password" this is what it says in description. Sorry if this is a dumb question but when it says password what is this talking about the encryption password I set up? If so that's not my problem I cant find the wallet.dat file that also looks like is needed for this to work? I am running hex editor searching sector by sector for my bitcoin private key. I hope!
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ok I did this I made an imagine using another hard drive and yes I have not even booted the original drive. Also I have a ssd this shouldn't make a difference I assume? Will try this tonight.
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this is for finding the password right? I already know my password just need to get my wallet/privatekeys back I think?
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ok file did not work... I am going to try and use the hex editor to find the private keys. My wallet is encrypted with a passphrase (password) hopefully this will not be a huge problem but I do know it. Basically I had a large transfer recently which mainly is the balance of the account. Am I looking for a public key which follows by a private key eventually? If I know the address of the transfer does that help? Do I need only one private key to recover the lost bitcoins? Any help is appreciated.
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I found the wallet.dat file what is next step to take?
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iv had the wallet for at least 4 years. I was able to access the files they look to still be intact I found bitcoin-core1 but it was in a .js file and also a .svg file not sure how to access the wallet.dat file
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is the passphrase the same as the password used to send transfers with? if so I have that. Can I use only the passphrase to recover my coins?
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what files are required to recover your BTC? I am having same issue with my bitcoin core and did not back up the private passkey.
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I have a few btc on the bitcoin core. I ran factory reset and did not install any other programs once this was completed. I'm not sure if files are erased I have not ran a recovery program. Is there any specific file I will be looking for to recover my bitcoin core? Or my private key?
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My computer did a factory reset and erased my files including my bitcoin core. Do I have to do data recovery through some company to get this back if possible? Or is there another way to do this? I didn't back up my private key. I have a desktop with a solid state drive. Thanks for help.
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