I was wondering if it's possible to find the wallet with keys if that wallet was an encrpted?
I have the old drive and forensics shows data but i can't find the wallet with hex and the mentioned sequence. is there a differenet sig for an encrpted wallet? or is it truely lost?
It's possible, tools such as pywallet can do it even if the file is marked as deleted. Most magic bytes applicable for both unencrypted and encrypted wallet. You might want to check few magic bytes/signature at
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/41450.
I may have been decieved or scammed? but this was a first year wallet with the first qt client and had what i think I rememeber was 1000 coins?
By any chance, did you buy wallet.dat file online?
