Wallet Corrupt (Paying 1btc if fixed)

[Garvis]

Hello, guys. I have a two year old wallet that I recently found. It's corrupt but I know there's 3btc on it. I'm willing to pay you 1btc to fix that wallet. If anyone can help just reply here, do NOT pm me. I will only choose people with some rep around here.


This wallet was never on my current computer and the computer it was on is gone now. I know the password to it (this may be a copy of the wallet without the password so add it in and maybe it'll work?). You will only get paid once the job is done.

[shorena]

#1 make an extra backup
#2 use -salvagewallet [1]


[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

[Garvis]

You run commands by this right?

1. Go into CMD
2. Type in "cd C:\Program Files\Bitcoin"
3. bitcoin-qt.exe -salvagewallet

right?

[marcotheminer]

Perhaps user Welsh will know something in order to help you out?

[srgkrgkj]

You run commands by this right?

1. Go into CMD
2. Type in "cd C:\Program Files\Bitcoin"
3. bitcoin-qt.exe -salvagewallet

right?

yep this should work

[roslinpl]

You run commands by this right?

1. Go into CMD
2. Type in "cd C:\Program Files\Bitcoin"
3. bitcoin-qt.exe -salvagewallet

right?

This is correct.  

Ad 2. Location might be different of course.

Good luck!  Let us know does it worked out for you.

If not you should follow MarcoTheMiner suggestion.

Welsh - link to his profile
He's got good knowledge and understanding of wallet.dat recovery.

But -salvagewallet perhaps will do the job.

Kind regards.

[sangwan1212]

better escrow the 1btc because its hard to trust a newbie

[Candystripes]

I might be able to help. So you are running Bitcoin Core, and the wallet is corrupt? What other details can you give?

[sangwan1212]

I might be able to help. So you are running Bitcoin Core, and the wallet is corrupt? What other details can you give?

Not to mention but i recommend using a escrow before you help him

[vm1990]

ill help let me know if you still need it

[Garvis]

Will message people about helping me later tonight. Gotta go to work now.

[cheekychap]

Will message people about helping me later tonight. Gotta go to work now.

We do hope, you do come back for paying out people , who helped you.

[conteaza]

better escrow the 1btc because its hard to trust a newbie

His bitcoins are frozen in his damaged wallet .. how he can put them in escrow ?

[nguyenducquy]

once again, it easily to do that but how can i know you will get paid for us after doing this? any other colloteral?

[Garvis]

You guys will in possession of the btc on the wallet. I'm the only one taking a risk here and clearly the people who didn't figure that out are not gonna be contacted cause they probably can't help me lol

Edit: The -salvagewallet command doesn't work so its gonna be more difficult than that.

[SHA256CryptoTrading]

All you need to do is get the private keys and load them into another wallet like multibit. If the privs are gone there is nothing you can do about it.

[shorena]

You guys will in possession of the btc on the wallet. I'm the only one taking a risk here and clearly the people who didn't figure that out are not gonna be contacted cause they probably can't help me lol

Edit: The -salvagewallet command doesn't work so its gonna be more difficult than that.

Might have been wiser not to wave a reward around, plenty greed around.

Anyway, I think the next step would be to get pywallet running and see what it can do for you. Since I never had to recover a corrput wallet Id say you either try it yourself or contact someone of your likeing.


A quick guide can be found here: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/17533/salvaged-possible-wallet-from-corrupt-hdd-now-what
pywallet thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0
new pywallet thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294439
pywallet source: https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet - its the correct one when it has >150 stars and >100 forks
DO NOT use the FAKE: sameas above/jj-jackjack/pywallet

[CrackedLogic]

once again, it easily to do that but how can i know you will get paid for us after doing this? any other colloteral?

Jeez guys, just help a member get back his wallet, if I found a solution I wouldn't asked to be paid. 1btc out of 3 is a lot.  You wouldn't be happy if your wallet was corrupted.

[vm1990]

once again, it easily to do that but how can i know you will get paid for us after doing this? any other colloteral?

Jeez guys, just help a member get back his wallet, if I found a solution I wouldn't asked to be paid. 1btc out of 3 is a lot.  You wouldn't be happy if your wallet was corrupted.

same id simply just ask for a donation

[fast2fix]

what error do see when you open the wallet? (core)