Its been a long time and I have almost finished with the wallet.dats and I'm just wondering about what you said about putting them together as one and then using bitcoin core, I am just wondering how I would do that if anyone has an answer it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for the Info, i have found more wallet.dats from another place so I am currently going through the process of recovering them and then putting them into bitcoin core. It will take along time because of the amount of wallet.dats and then each one in bitcoin core takes 6 hours.   

Thank you

Sorry for not being active recently, I am  going to use Disk Drill & have downloaded it from the official site. Thanks for the info.

oaky will do thanks.

so when i got the notification of the restore wallet failed, its said     data is not in recognized format.

Could it be the recovery software is the issue or is it that I didn't save the wallet.dat when I deleted the Bitcoin Core from my 'D' drive?

It took around 6 hours to load the wallet and there is nothing there, i have not tried text editor yet. Do you recommend any recovery software as I want to go back on to the old hard drive and recover it with a different software to see as it says that it is in incorrect format at the moment.

I have a fully updated un pruned bitcoin core that is trying to restore the wallet it is taking a very long time and will post the results as soon as possible, at least it hasn't failed

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Is notepad good enough or which text editor do you recommenced. I will do this if the file fails to load.

Hi sorry for the long wait. I have been trying different wallet.dats that I have been finding then using the recovery method and I have found this,

The new wallet C:\Python27\111recover_folder/recovered_wallet_1737671199.dat contains the 4103 recovered keys

Quite a surprise to me as I have never seen the scan go this far and it has never came back with this answer nor has it gone to the importing keys stage so it looks hopeful on this side. Is this a step in the right direction?

Managed to get some time today and here is the results of the scan

Found 1 possible wallets
Found 6 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys

Possible wallet #1
    with passphrase #1

Private keys not decrypted: 6
Trying all the remaining possibilities (6) might take up to 0 minutes.
Do you want to test them? (y/n): y

The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct


Importing:


The new wallet C:\Python27\111recover_folder/recovered_wallet_1737138914.dat contains the 0 recovered key

The 111recover_folder has a recovered wallet in and some other stuff along with the db.001 to 006 but I'm guessing this is not good result.

I'm terribly sorry for no response this week, I have had a very hectic week to say the least and I will be back to it on Saturday 

Thanks, I have had a little bit of success, getting it to go through the scan of the Go Reads and here is the result that came through at the end

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pywallet.py", line 4034, in <module>
    recoveredKeys=recov(device, passes, size, 10240, options.recov_outputdir)
  File "pywallet.py", line 1713, in recov
    f=open(outputdir+'/pywallet_partial_recovery_%d.json'%ts(), 'w')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Python27\\111recover_folder/pywallet_partial_recovery_1736643639.json'

I also have an additional file named  111dump01.tx  in the directory and files called __db.001 to __db.006

I did create the wallet and named it, but I didn't save it so I recovered the file using recovery software (EASEUS) and the .dat file I recovered when loading it into the bitcoin client comes back with an error message with the wallet being in an incorrect format.

I have got this far but it would not let me type in the passphrase when prompted to 

PS F:\> ./python pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=F: --recov_size=57Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\Python27\111recover_folder
WARNING:root:pycrypto or libssl not found, decryption may be slow
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys:
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys (can't be empty):
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys (can't be empty):

Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:
Possible passphrase:

The wallet is approximately 13/14 months old, this is the version that the .dat was created in the bitcoin client bitcoin-v25.0.0.

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Just FYI when I try to load the corrupted wallet.dat, bitcoin client tells me the wallet
is in an incorrect format.This is the file i recovered after stupidly deleting it from my D drive.

Im going to be using a USB flash drive as my non system drive, I am unsure if i can shrink the partition on this?
Or does it have to be an actual hard drive

Grab a small USB flash drive (preferably USB3) to be used as your --recov-device. Does this mean i need a second USB drive for the --recov-device drive, i have one if that is the case.
I am just about to try the simplest third method after posting this message thanks

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So I have put my wallet.dat file into C Python27 and ran the command in Windowspowershell replacing the passphrase with mine ands the name of my wallet.dat file and it came out with
ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again.
I didn't have anything to do with bitcoin open. Does this mean I have to do the other method as it is corrupted.

Okay so silly me had a (1) in the middle so I changed that to just pywallet.py and yeah this came up when I retyped the command. I'm guessing this is where I will need my corrupted file in my C python 27 and run the command you sent in an earlier post. Also where will I place the command in all this text.

PS C:\Python27> ./python.exe pywallet.py -h
WARNING:root:pycrypto or libssl not found, decryption may be slow
Usage: pywallet.py [options]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --dump_bip32=DUMP_BIP32
                        dump the keys from a xpriv and a path, usage:
                        --dump_bip32 xprv9s21ZrQH143K m/0H/1-2/2H/2-4
  --bip32_format=BIP32_FORMAT
                        format of dumped bip32 keys
  --passphrase=PASSPHRASE
                        passphrase for the encrypted wallet
  --find_address=FIND_ADDRESS
                        find info about an address
  -d, --dumpwallet      dump wallet in json format
  --dumpformat=DUMPFORMAT
                        choose what to extract in a wallet dump
  --dumpwithbalance     includes balance of each address in the json dump,
                        takes about 2 minutes per 100 addresses
  --importprivkey=KEY   import private key from vanitygen
  --importhex           DEPRECATED, useless
  --datadir=DATADIR     REMOVED OPTION: put full path in the --wallet option
  -w WALLETFILE, --wallet=WALLETFILE
                        wallet filename (defaults to wallet.dat)
  --label=LABEL         label shown in the adress book (defaults to '')
  --testnet             use testnet subdirectory and address type
  --namecoin            use namecoin address type
  --eth                 use ethereum address type
  --otherversion=OTHERVERSION
                        use other network address type, either P2PKH prefix
                        only (e.g. 111) or full network info as
                        'name,p2pkh,p2sh,wif,segwithrp' (e.g. btc,0,0,0x80,bc)
  --info                display pubkey, privkey (both depending on the
                        network) and hexkey
  --reserve             import as a reserve key, i.e. it won't show in the
                        adress book
  --multidelete=MULTIDELETE
                        deletes data in your wallet, according to the file
                        provided
  --balance=KEY_BALANCE
                        prints balance of KEY_BALANCE
  --recover             recover your deleted keys, use with recov_size and
                        recov_device
  --recov_device=RECOV_DEVICE
                        device to read (e.g. /dev/sda1 or E: or a file)
  --recov_size=RECOV_SIZE
                        number of bytes to read (e.g. 20Mo or 50Gio)
  --recov_outputdir=RECOV_OUTPUTDIR
                        output directory where the recovered wallet will be
                        put
  --clone_watchonly_from=CLONE_WATCHONLY_FROM
                        path of the original wallet
  --clone_watchonly_to=CLONE_WATCHONLY_TO
                        path of the resulting watch-only wallet
  --dont_check_walletversion
                        don't check if wallet version > 81000 before running
                        (WARNING: this may break your wallet, be sure you know
                        what you do)
  --random_key          print info of a randomly generated private key
  --whitepaper          write the Bitcoin whitepaper using bitcoin-cli or
                        blockchain.info
  --minimal_encrypted_copy
                        write a copy of an encrypted wallet with only an empty
                        address, *should* be safe to share when needing help
                        bruteforcing the password
  --tests               run tests

So I have copy and pasted pywallet into C:\Python27
When I typed in the command   ./python.exe pywallet.py -h   
It came out with   
C:\Python27\python.exe: can't open file 'pywallet.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

not sure why it says No such file or directory, maybe I'm being stupid?

So  PS C:\Python27> C:/python27/python.exe -V
      Python 2.7.18

Does that mean it is all good now because it shows what version of python I am using. That is on windows PowerShell when i hold shift and right click on  This PC  local disk C  Python 27.

I can now see the extensions.

Yes I am using windows10. I downloaded python from your link and when I type in the command in PowerShell  > python -s
Python was not found; run without arguments to install from the Microsoft Store, or disable this shortcut from Settings > Manage App Execution Aliases.

I chose to download Windows x86-64 MSI installer and went through the instillation. I can also open python.exe so not sure why i am getting that answer.
I also ran the command python pywallet.py --tests in powershell by shift and right clicking and so fourth where i had "pywallet.py" downloaded and got this answer
Python was not found; run without arguments to install from the Microsoft Store, or disable this shortcut from Settings > Manage App Execution Aliases.
Maybe because my python is not installed correctly

I have downloaded from this link https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/blob/master/pywallet.py  and it is currently in my downloads folder as pywallet as far as installing it, it keeps going off the second i double click on it.

This is the message I get on command prompt Downloads>python3 pywallet.py
Python was not found; run without arguments to install from the Microsoft Store, or disable this shortcut from Settings > Manage App Execution Aliases

Yes that's exactly what was happening when  double-click .py file, it'll print message on CMD and quit immediately.
I presume I'm not using the commands correctly to get pywallet in my downloads folder because as you can see I'm a numpty with them.

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There isn't a folder with pywallet.py in it, it is in my downloads as pywallet and if I type cmd in the address bar in my downloads nothing happens. Sorry I'm obviously being stupid.

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