hi,
ive been mining coins for a while on 8x 6970 in 2 PCs
my wallet.dat file went corrupt :S and i need help restoring...
this is the error im getting (last lines from debug.log)
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Loading wallet...
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EXCEPTION: NSt8ios_base7failureE
CDataStream::read() : end of data
A:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe in Runaway exception
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wallet.dat = 160KB
i did try to remove all but the wallet.dat file and restarted the bitcoin client.
no success..
tried to import the wallet.dat on another computer with a fresh win7+bitcoin install.
no success
tried to recover previous versions of the wallet.dat with recover software, found a few. none work
also tried all bitcoin clients from 0.3.21 - 0.5.1
then i found the following:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11331.0problem is .. i have 0 linux/python knowledge..
i dont know how to run the .py files.
first step should be dbdump.py
but how to run the command on my wallet ?
ive downloaded python 2.7
ive placed the bitcointools in the same folder as the wallet.dat,
did several attempts in both python command line and IDLE (python gui)
but to be honest .. i have no idea what im doing.. >_<
i need to know exactly which commands i need to run in python..
wallet contains about 300 coins >_<
help me out.. and ill throw some coins your way...
thx !