Yeah... it's just the stupid complicated thing you need to do when "escaping" special characters in programming languages!
You can ignore all this "gobbledy gook"... it's correct.
here are the commands: ( PS** the passphrase is made up, wont be used ever after this operation)
...
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: push costa surge wrote soil hospital derived migrate vacation arts fremont analyzed
NOTE: It appears you are confusing a wallet encryption password (aka the "passphrase" that pywallet is prompting you to enter)... for a 12 word mnemonic recovery phrase. Bitcoin Core has never used 12 word mnemonic phrases. What pywallet is asking you for when it says "Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys" is simply a "password" that will be used to encrypt the wallet.dat file that it is going to create... this can be anything you like, like abc123 or password123 etc... but you need to be able to remember it, because
if pywallet is successful in finding private keys... then to use the wallet.dat within Bitcoin Core to recover your coins (or to extract the private keys from it) you will need the password!
Anyway... onto the root cause of your current issue...
C:\Users\Hoss>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device C:\ --recov_size=465.0Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: push costa surge wrote soil hospital derived migrate vacation arts fremont analyzed
Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:
Starting recovery.
Can't open \\.\C:\, check the path or try as root
Error: (2, 'No such file or directory')
I apologise, I think I originally set you wrong with the device naming... DO NOT use the "\" char... so when you specify --recov_device, it should simply be C: or D: or X: or whatever
If you include the \ character, then the script will get confused and give you the "Can't open C:\, check the path or try as root" type error. Sorry!
Anyway, based on what you have so your command should be:
C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device C: --recov_size=465Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet
NOTE: I would recommend that you don't use spaces in directory names... that could cause unexpected results.
Also, you need to make sure that the output directory that you specify exists BEFORE you run the pywallet scan... otherwise it will fail at the end with an error like this:
You are right, when It said passphrase I assumed it's the 12 words, my bad!
I changed the Potential recovery folder name to avoid conflict ( no space now)
Changed the directory and commands with the following similar results: ( it now said permission denied instead of Error: (2, 'No such file or directory) now it's Can't open C:, check the path or try as root
Error: (13, 'Permission denied')
Then displayed the Path and directory to see where the conflict may be coming from ( probably user error wrong download or install......).
C:\Users\Hoss\Documents\pywallet-win-files-master>pywallet.py --recover --recov_device C: --recov_size=465.0Gio --recov_outputdir C:\Users\Hoss\Desktop\found_wallet
Enter the passphrase for the wallet that will contain all the recovered keys: 123
Enter the possible passphrases used in your deleted wallets.
Don't forget that more passphrases = more time to test the possibilities.
Write one passphrase per line and end with an empty line.
Possible passphrase:
Starting recovery.
Can't open C:, check the path or try as root
Error: (13, 'Permission denied')
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hope this have enough info to resolve the problem,
Thank you so very much.