Help with recovering wallet and Armory

[pedrots]

Hey guys, my first post here.

For the last 2 weeks I've been trying to recuperate an old wallet (from 2014) that I backed up then. I wanted to because of the now soaring prices of the BTC.

I downloaded armory and Bitcoin Core and downloaded the entire Chain.

With Armory I have the issue of the DB crashing everytime I let it run (overnight). It has crashed from 60 to 70% every time it is loading the DB.

Also everytime I open Armory I get a message that Bitcoin Core has lost its connection. Don't know if its related.

I've looked into the web for solutions but nothing has worked thus far.

Also, I have a wallet in a wallet.dat file. How can I recover it?

Thanks everyone.

[HI-TEC99]

If you have a wallet.dat you can open it with an offline bitcoin core, then use the instructions in the quote to export private keys from it and import them into an electrum wallet. Electrum can give you almost instant access to your coins.

Click file, then receiving addresses. Find the address you sent coins to in the window that opens, right click it, and select copy address. Close the addresses window.

Click help, then debug window.

In the debug window that opens click console.

In the text box at the bottom of the window type

dumpprivkey yourAddress

where yourAddress is the address you sent coins to and copied earlier.

Press your enter key.

The private key for that address should appear in the console window. Copy it.

This is an example private key.

L48toSntMVhC2az4KAQCWscrQGfPbT55yCgzM5cmx9Ao69pTdwrq

Download and install electrum.

https://electrum.org/#download

Import your private key into it using these instructions.

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients

Afterwards your coins should be spendable.