Lost my wallet!

[notlist3d]

This will really come down to how much BTC is in wallet. If a few might be worth doing recovery by yourself to try to get it.

For professional data recovery it will take a lot of BTC in it to make sense.

[Maloppo]

before your format hdd, dont forget to create a backup wallet.

[Bitcoin_Mafia_Me]

Ouch. I learned this same lesson the same exact way. Always - ALWAYS - back up your wallet. And
make backups of your backups. In multiple locations.

I know that advice doesn't help you NOW, though. Like some of the folks before me said, there are
recovery utilities out there - hopefully they will work better for you than they did for me. I lost over
4 BTC that way, back when BTC were over $700 a pop. Yeah, it stung.

[Anillos2]

before your format hdd, dont forget to create a backup wallet.

And don't forget to ask here if you have any doubts about wallet backups.

Remember: Better safe than sorry

[sgk]

Hello everyone,

Recently I completely formatted my HDD because I was having some software issues. I thought it would suffice to just write down my bitcoin address and password  somewhere, in order to log on to my wallet later on. However, I just installed MultiBit on my PC again, and I can't seem to find how I can access my old wallet with the bitcoin address+password. So my question is, is it even possible to re-gain access to my wallet this way, or should I have copied some other files for it? If it is not possible, is there still some way to retrieve the money from my wallet with just my address and password?

Thanks in advance!

Stijn

A bitcoin address is not enough to recover your Bitcins. What you have is your public address. You need the private keys, which you don't have.

In that case you have to get your "wallet.dat" file back.
MultiBit stores it in "C:\Users\Username\App Data\Roaming\Multibit"
Try to use a recovery software and see if you can get this file back.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

how can lost wallet at a moment are your not safe youre code to get back the account?
private code ?etc?

[NadineWilliams]

Hello everyone,

Recently I completely formatted my HDD because I was having some software issues. I thought it would suffice to just write down my bitcoin address and password  somewhere, in order to log on to my wallet later on. However, I just installed MultiBit on my PC again, and I can't seem to find how I can access my old wallet with the bitcoin address+password. So my question is, is it even possible to re-gain access to my wallet this way, or should I have copied some other files for it? If it is not possible, is there still some way to retrieve the money from my wallet with just my address and password?

Thanks in advance!

Stijn

I think you can't open your old wallet without wallet.dat
You should back up your wallet before you use to fill some coins

[bitbaby]

In future if you don't want this to happen again, back-up your wallet.dat or your private keys. If that seems like a hassle to you, just use a wallet like electrum and remember it's seed.

[shavers]

I think that Bitcoin wallets should warn the user if he didn't created a backup file.

+10

I've made a simple command line that executes every time my windoze starts:

@echo off
 xcopy /y C:\Users\Shavers\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallet.dat D:\Backup\BTC\
 xcopy /y C:\Users\Shavers\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallet.dat \\X-PC\walletbackup\all

That makes a wallet.dat copy to local and lan disk.
What i'd like to do is to make a copy on a cloud as well but so far i haven't had any luck. At least not in this simple manner.

[Philipd]

if uve used the drive to store data, there's no way to recover deleted files

[Rude Boy]

try to recover your multibit wallet ( <your wallet name>.wallet ) using "icare" software and then open it with multibit..
that's all...
For more pm me?

[ranochigo]

Hello everyone,

Recently I completely formatted my HDD because I was having some software issues. I thought it would suffice to just write down my bitcoin address and password  somewhere, in order to log on to my wallet later on. However, I just installed MultiBit on my PC again, and I can't seem to find how I can access my old wallet with the bitcoin address+password. So my question is, is it even possible to re-gain access to my wallet this way, or should I have copied some other files for it? If it is not possible, is there still some way to retrieve the money from my wallet with just my address and password?

Thanks in advance!

Stijn

I think you can't open your old wallet without wallet.dat
You should back up your wallet before you use to fill some coins

Some wallet requires frequent backup. If you don't backup regularly, coins can be lost due to the change address(depending on your client)

[DeboraMeeks]

You should have saved your Private Key instead of just the address and password, it should have saved you from all the mess you are stuck in.

[LuckyBtc]

I think that Bitcoin wallets should warn the user if he didn't created a backup file.

+10

I've made a simple command line that executes every time my windoze starts:

@echo off
 xcopy /y C:\Users\Shavers\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallet.dat D:\Backup\BTC\
 xcopy /y C:\Users\Shavers\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallet.dat \\X-PC\walletbackup\all

That makes a wallet.dat copy to local and lan disk.
What i'd like to do is to make a copy on a cloud as well but so far i haven't had any luck. At least not in this simple manner.

For cloud backup you can use Google Drive.
1.Install Google Drive software and log-in.
2.Make a command to copy the wallet.dat to Google Drive folder.(Located on Desktop)
3.Google Drive will sync it automatically whenever file is modified.

[avw1982]

This is why you always need to make backups. How much BTC would already be lost by this kind of things.

[Amph]

there are some programs that can still recover your erased data, even after a format c:, as long as you didn't secure erase

next time use a real back up, cold storage, even a pen drive is ok

[MustafaJohnMing]

there are some programs that can still recover your erased data, even after a format c:, as long as you didn't secure erase

next time use a real back up, cold storage, even a pen drive is ok

Yes

[Drakebill]

I lost some btc like this when I first started. u should be more careful