Hello,
I reformatted my hard drive containing bitcoin-qt and my wallet. I did have a backup on my external hard drive which I deleted (but did not reformat the drive).
The drive which originally had bitcoin-qt and the wallet on it has been used extensively for a year since being reformatted and consequently has no trace of the wallet on it - I've tried PhotoRec, a bunch of MacOSX file recovery software and pywallet --recover to search for the keys. No results.
Moving on to the backup drive I have which once held the wallet.dat . To be specific, this drive was a MacOSX Timecapsule drive, I have deleted the Timecapsule folder but not reformatted the drive. I've run PhotoRec as per
http://www.cyplo.net/2012/04/01/bitcoin-wallet-recovery-photorec/ . This has returned 249 .dat files , of varying sizes between 40GB and 8kb . I have run the recovered .dat files that are less than 1MB through pywallet.py --recover . Pywallet has been unable to get any keys out of them. Bitcoin-qt --salvage has also been unable to save the wallet.dat.
Is there anything else I can do? Or is the wallet truly lost?
Thanks
