Trying to recover a wallet.dat file from 2011!

[undercard]

I received 50BTC back in 2010 from a friend of mine. The harddrive ended up getting severe platter damage. 7 years and $2700 later I was able to recover the wallet.dat file that shows it was last updated in 2011. I was running the bitcoin-0.3.18-win32 software. Today I dropped that old wallet.dat file in the latest bitcoin core software and cant get any of my transactions or balance to show. Where do I go from here to finish up recovering this old BTC? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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[hazukison]

I received 50BTC back in 2010 from a friend of mine. The harddrive ended up getting severe platter damage. 7 years and $2700 later I was able to recover the wallet.dat file that shows it was last updated in 2011. I was running the bitcoin-0.3.18-win32 software. Today I dropped that old wallet.dat file in the latest bitcoin core software and cant get any of my transactions or balance to show. Where do I go from here to finish up recovering this old BTC? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

How big is the file your importing? and did you try pywallet?

[undercard]

The wallet.dat file is 32kb. I have not, this is the first time I'm hearing of pywallet. Ill look into that now thanks you.

[jackg]

The wallet.dat file is 32kb. I have not, this is the first time I'm hearing of pywallet. Ill look into that now thanks you.

This is the Github repo you're after: https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet

From this user here: jackjack.

(I got the github link from his profile page)

BEFORE DOING THIS: Open the console and run bitcoin-qt with the command "-updatewallet".

[unamis76]

First make a copy (or several) of that file and leave that copy untouched. With that done I'd try to run it in a modern client with the salvagewallet command. If I remember correctly, at some point in time the wallet.dat file structure changed quite a bit, so it probably won't work. If not, I'd just dump the private keys via the old client and import them on a newer one. pywallet will also work, but it's probably overkill for what you're aiming for. For extra security, export the keys in a secure offline environment.