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on: January 07, 2012, 12:07:24 AM

I found that series on my drive. What next? Thanks again for all the help

on: January 06, 2012, 05:40:12 AM

Quote from: casascius on January 06, 2012, 04:10:57 AM An old wallet has a VERY GOOD chance of being usable to recover bitcoins, even if they were received after the backup was made. Make an extra copy of the wallet for safekeeping. Then, shut down Bitcoin, put a copy of the flash drive wallet in place of the empty wallet.dat that was created by Bitcoin, and then restart Bitcoin with the "-rescan" command line switch. This takes several minutes. If any coins are recoverable and your block chain is up to date, they will show up in your balance. Sorry I left out important information. I deleted the wallet.dat file on the flashdrive because I was going to move the updated wallet.dat onto it, which I forgot to do. I'm asking if the deleted wallet.dat on the flash drive is recoverable.

on: January 06, 2012, 03:35:19 AM

Quote from: casascius on January 06, 2012, 02:00:59 AM Yes it will work, though it just may not find anything. If a hex editor can't find your wallet, I can't either. How about the wallet.dat on the Flash drive? The only diffrence between that and the one on the ssd is 1 transaction and I put a password on it. Thanks for your help.

on: January 06, 2012, 01:42:48 AM

I was hoping I could do something on my own to solve it. Will the hex editor method work on a SSD?

on: January 06, 2012, 12:14:01 AM

Quote from: bulanula on January 05, 2012, 11:04:38 PM Where are you located ? What SSD was it ? I'm located in the Bay Area. It's a 40gb Intel X25-V

on: January 06, 2012, 12:12:09 AM

Quote from: chromeguy on January 05, 2012, 11:37:14 PM Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on January 05, 2012, 11:29:28 PM SSD make chance of recovery even worse as they have garbage collection. I wouldn't even boot up until you are ready to attempt recovery. SSD are slow to erase and must erase before they write so in the backup the SSD controller will erase blocks marked as unused. Unlike a magnetic HDD where the file remains until it is overwritten w/ an SSD you can lose the data simply by letting SSD sit idle even if the file isn't overwritten. that's nasty! can you make a clone image using a program designed to image corrupt hdd's? this way you can poke and probe without fear of this garbage collection performing. also, y u no old backup?! just discussing on a different thread about the wallet, an old backup will restore up to 100 post-backup keys/transactions from the backup date. what program do you suggest?

on: January 05, 2012, 11:00:48 PM

Yes, I unfortunately reformatted the drive. I loaded up a ubuntu live cd, opened the terminal and entered "wget http://www.makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover-0.2-linux.tar.gz tar xzf wallet-recover-0.2-linux.tar.gz" then I entered this sudo ./wallet-recover-0.2-linux/bin/32/wallet-recover /dev/sda recovered-wallet.dat however the terminal said that this command " /wallet-recover-0.2-linux/bin/32/wallet-recover" was not found.As for shiping my drive, is their anyone who can fix it for me like that and for what fee. Thanks for the replies

on: January 05, 2012, 03:31:21 PM

Yeah, it's a 125 bitcoins. I forgot to add that it's an ssd too, and also that I had a 2 month old copy of wallet.dat on my flash drive, before I deleted it since I was going to move the new wallet.dat onto it. The command ./wallet-recover-0.2-linux/bin/32/wallet-recover did not work.

on: January 05, 2012, 06:45:41 AM

HI everyone, This evening I did a clean reinstall of windows, however I forgot to move my wallet.dat. When I realized my mistake, I booted into a live cd of ubuntu. I tried to recover the keys using this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0, but it said the command was not found. Can anybody help me out. Much thanks

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