Hello Everyone,
After 10 years I was able to recover a wallet.dat from a HD that has been partially erased and the board then caught fire. I now have a wallet.dat file that I believe is my original but I am trying to find a way to load it, find the address, anything to see if this is the correct wallet.
When I create a new wallet in Bitcoin Core, replace the new wallet.dat with my recovered one I get an error that it is an invalid format.
When I tried using pywallet I am receiving ":Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again." Any help to get me closer would be very much appreciated.
Below is an image of what opening the wallet.dat looks like in a hex editor
Your best shot is to use pywallet and scan to see if it finds any keys. Encrypted or unencrypted.
What software did you use to recover the file? maybe you should make an image of the drive and scan it with pywallet as well.
You can find the software on github here:https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet
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