wallet.dat corrupt need help plz

[lordviper2300]

hey all. so i have a ruby coin wallet.dat that says is corrupt. and i have alot of coins in it and need to recover it.

i know nothing about linux or any other operating system other then windows. so im wondering if there is a program that i can use in windows to recover my coins?

or if someone can give me a detailed step by step on what to do to recover the coins.

[minerpools]

use --salvagewallet for if that doesn't work try with --repairwallet (Backup your wallet.dat before you try anything)

[lordviper2300]

have tried that and it doesnt work. in the db file it says

Encrypted checksum: no encryption key specified
Page 0: metadata page corrupted
Page 0: could not check metadata page
wallet.dat: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed
__db_meta_setup: C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Rubycoin_v2\wallet.dat: unexpected file type or format

[cloverme]

hey all. so i have a ruby coin wallet.dat that says is corrupt. and i have alot of coins in it and need to recover it.

i know nothing about linux or any other operating system other then windows. so im wondering if there is a program that i can use in windows to recover my coins?

or if someone can give me a detailed step by step on what to do to recover the coins.

You might have a previous version on the drive if shadowcopy took a snapshot of it.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-restore-previous-versions-of-a-file-in-wind.html

It's worth a shot...

If not, then hopefully you extracted your private keys at some point.

[lordviper2300]

ya unfortunatly that wont work. i screwed up and reformated my drive without making any backups of my wallet.dat file. so after i reinstalled windows thats when i remembered about the wallet. so i installed a program to recover the file. but whenever i try to open it i get those errors.

stupid me for not making any other backups. i have seen posts on how to use a program called pywallet. but i have no idea what im doin or how to use that thing.

[lordviper2300]

anyone else have any suggestions on what i can possibly do to recover my wallet? or should i just give up and lick my wounds for loosing 140k coins. lol

[DecentralizeEconomics]

Pywallet works.

Download it -> https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet

Dump wallet with command -> pywallet.py --dumpwallet --datadir=C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Rubycoin_v2\ > dump.txt

You should be able to run this command in Command Prompt (Start command prompt with CMD).

This will dump all your private keys to a text file and you should be able to read them from there.  You can import your private keys into a new wallet.

Remember to backup your old wallet first.

[lordviper2300]

thanks for that. i have tried it and i guess the wallet is just to corrupted. nothing can be done with it. oh well my own fault for not backing it up.

just sucks to loose out on 140k ruby coins.