Oldnewbie sent me a few PMs, but Newbies can only send 2 PMs per day. So let's try to solve this from this topic.
I'll summarize what I know so far, correct me if it's wrong:
1. You used a Linux LIVE CD, created a partition on your hard drive, and created a Bitcoin wallet.
2. Someone transfered some Bitcoins to your wallet.
3. You think you used version 0.2 Linux, which might have been one of the earliest Bitcoin-qt releases. I expect your wallet to be called wallet.dat.
4. You set a passphrase for the wallet (and I hope you still know what it is!)
Selected quotes from the PMs:
The partitions was Linux 0x88, Fat32, and a swap file I think.
Partition 88 would be Linux plaintext, which I've never used before. It would have been a weird choice, but you could have remembered it wrong. 0x88 could be something else too.
I never even got a chance to down load the chain file, just had a password for private key, the whole wallet didn't have one.
I can't think of a wallet that has a password for the private key, but not for the wallet itself.
Question:How big are each of the partition on your disk?
My suggestions on how to proceed:1. Create a LIVE Linux DVD, I suggest
Ubuntu.
2. Burn it, and boot it. Use a computer with enough RAM, you may have to install your old disk in a newer PC.
3. Start by confirming which partitions you have. Open a Terminal (CTRL-ALT-T), and enter for instance:
Post the results of your partitions.
4. You can try to mount the partitions from Ubuntu's GUI. Just see if it works.
5. Once mounted, search for files.
there was a guy helping me set up it up
It would be easiest if that same guy would help you out again. From here, I'm just guessing what to do, so for now I'll wait if you can use my suggestions to determine the exact partitions you have.
Wondering if pywallet would be a good way to get the keys from the partitions.
It may be able to do this, but I have no experience using it.