Formated disc - recover altcoin wallets

[aljazstraser]

Hello,

I would really need help from somebody who experienced same problems. I installed new Windows version on my computer. In setup wizard I formated old partition and installed fresh version of Windows.

After that I used different tools for recovering files.. like EaseUs Recovery and Recuva.. all found wallet.dat files, but when I want to open any altcoin it says: wallet.dat corrupt salvage failed..

Tried also to open *.exe with --salvage option, nothing helps..

Please suggest, how can I recover my wallets.

Regards,
Aljaz

[cissrawk]

are you already try this method : https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/43408/how-can-i-fix-corrupted-encrypted-wallet-dat

You need pywallet for it. Hope it can help

[aljazstraser]

Hey,

Tried on Windows.. installed everything..

When executing this command:

c:\pywallet-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=E:\backup\wallet.dat --r
ecov_size=500Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\pywallet-master\recover

I am getting result:

Starting recovery.

Read 0.0 Go in 0.0 minutes

Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys


All the found encrypted private keys have been decrypted.
The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct


Importing:


The new wallet C:\pywallet-master\recover/recovered_wallet_1503575561.dat contai
ns the 0 recovered key

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Aljaz

[cissrawk]

Hey,

Tried on Windows.. installed everything..

When executing this command:

c:\pywallet-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=E:\backup\wallet.dat --r
ecov_size=500Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\pywallet-master\recover

I am getting result:

Starting recovery.

Read 0.0 Go in 0.0 minutes

Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys


All the found encrypted private keys have been decrypted.
The wallet is encrypted and the passphrase is correct


Importing:


The new wallet C:\pywallet-master\recover/recovered_wallet_1503575561.dat contai
ns the 0 recovered key

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Aljaz

hmm.. seems like only work to corrupted encrypted wallet, sorry never got that.  But i found this site https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/recover-wallet-dat-file.html , dunno if thats work or not.

Another one is salvage wallet but seems like doesnt work on yours

Edit : maybe this will help you : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166047.0

[HCP]

When executing this command:

c:\pywallet-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=E:\backup\wallet.dat --r
ecov_size=500Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\pywallet-master\recover

What am I doing wrong?

The --recov_device argument should be just the drive letter... You need to give it a "device”... Not a file. If you read the stack exchange link from earlier, you'll see the user is a small USB thumb drive, put the wallet file on that and then used pywallet.

And --recov_size should be the size of that device you're scanning.

So if you had a 4gig USB thumb drive, mounted as drive G: you would use:

pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=G: --recov_size=4Gio --recov_outputdir=C:\pywallet-master\recover