Found my old wallet.dat which seems to be corrupted. Please Help.

[nc50lc]

Then I used pywallet to dump the keys from the corrupted wallet.dat file that was found. In the wallet.text file that pywallet generated, I found this 51 character key, along with an address. The address is valid and had one transaction as per blockchain explorer all the way back from 2011. Its a miniscule amount, though worth recovering as I am taking this as a learning experience incase I find the real missing wallet.

Does the "51 character key" written next to "sec":?
Because that's the WIF prvKey of the address above it; if it's in any other line, it's just a coincidence.

IDK if Pywallet will be able to dump corrupted private keys but since you're copy-pasting and it's invalid, then it might be the case.
But it's the encoding that's the issue and raw prvKeys in wallet.dat files aren't base58check encoded, perhaps it's an issue in Pywallet, try an earlier version.

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[givemebackmybtc]

Then I used pywallet to dump the keys from the corrupted wallet.dat file that was found. In the wallet.text file that pywallet generated, I found this 51 character key, along with an address. The address is valid and had one transaction as per blockchain explorer all the way back from 2011. Its a miniscule amount, though worth recovering as I am taking this as a learning experience incase I find the real missing wallet.

Does the "51 character key" written next to "sec":?
Because that's the WIF prvKey of the address above it; if it's in any other line, it's just a coincidence.

IDK if Pywallet will be able to dump corrupted private keys but since you're copy-pasting and it's invalid, then it might be the case.
But it's the encoding that's the issue and raw prvKeys in wallet.dat files aren't base58check encoded, perhaps it's an issue in Pywallet, try an earlier version.

Yes the key sits next to sec:

I'll try dumping they keys using a different version of pywallet

[Berkeleydb1]

Then I used pywallet to dump the keys from the corrupted wallet.dat file that was found. In the wallet.text file that pywallet generated, I found this 51 character key, along with an address. The address is valid and had one transaction as per blockchain explorer all the way back from 2011. Its a miniscule amount, though worth recovering as I am taking this as a learning experience incase I find the real missing wallet.

Does the "51 character key" written next to "sec":?
Because that's the WIF prvKey of the address above it; if it's in any other line, it's just a coincidence.

IDK if Pywallet will be able to dump corrupted private keys but since you're copy-pasting and it's invalid, then it might be the case.
But it's the encoding that's the issue and raw prvKeys in wallet.dat files aren't base58check encoded, perhaps it's an issue in Pywallet, try an earlier version.

Yes the key sits next to sec:

I'll try dumping they keys using a different version of pywallet

Hello my friend i need a guide for macomk pywallet. I'm a beginner and I don't have enough knowledge, can you please explain like you would to an idiot? I've been waiting for months I need your help for macomk, please help.

[givemebackmybtc]

Then I used pywallet to dump the keys from the corrupted wallet.dat file that was found. In the wallet.text file that pywallet generated, I found this 51 character key, along with an address. The address is valid and had one transaction as per blockchain explorer all the way back from 2011. Its a miniscule amount, though worth recovering as I am taking this as a learning experience incase I find the real missing wallet.

Does the "51 character key" written next to "sec":?
Because that's the WIF prvKey of the address above it; if it's in any other line, it's just a coincidence.

IDK if Pywallet will be able to dump corrupted private keys but since you're copy-pasting and it's invalid, then it might be the case.
But it's the encoding that's the issue and raw prvKeys in wallet.dat files aren't base58check encoded, perhaps it's an issue in Pywallet, try an earlier version.

Different versions of pywallet end up dumping the same exact private key 

Last option, try to fully restore the deleted files from the HDD, and see if I can find the actual wallet.dat file manually.

I'm guessing like you mentioned the wallet.dat is too corrupt and it won't dump the keys correctly.

[nc50lc]

Different versions of pywallet end up dumping the same exact private key  

Try to run: pywallet --tests
And see if you will get encoding-related errors.

Just to be sure, does your importprivkey command looks like this?:

Code:

importprivkey "51qecEjLcNQony2W6PrivateKeyNotValidq4dfJP8sHgeVKaU3"

Code:

importprivkey "51qecEjLcNQony2W6PrivateKeyNotValidq4dfJP8sHgeVKaU3" "label" true

No other signs aside from the quotation marks or even without those.