Quote from: dspal77 on August 23, 2017, 09:53:48 AM

Quote from: jc12345 on August 23, 2017, 08:27:35 AM

Quote from: dspal77 on August 23, 2017, 04:21:52 AM

I have to stare at my ARK wallet everyday that holds a SIGNIFICANT amount that I can do nothing with since I wrote down the password wrong. I've spent atleast over 100 hours trying different passwords, caps lock, spaces, etc. That's nobody's fault but my own and I accepted that. It sucks BALLS, but I don't expect somebody to intervene on my behalf since ultimately it's my own fault.

Do you perhaps have a backup of your ARK wallet? There is a difference between not having the private key and not having the password to open the wallet. It is much more computationally feasible to brute force guess a wallet password vs a private key. The Start guys dont have the private key which is impossible to guess with current technology. Have you considered using a software robot to guess the password of the wallet?

Thanks, I appreciate all the feedback! Turns out the HD it was stored on before had multiple bad sectors after a move and got corrupted. I've tried everything from Brutus and Medusa to programs like WFuzz to try and search for hidden resource directories because I remember even saving the 35 alpha/numeric/symbol pass to Notepad, to no avail. I even tried cloning software (Acronis True Image) and HexEdit to try and break down the code within the Notepad file manually since I was atleast able to siphon that off of a working partition within the drive. I've since built a new pc with multiple drives and when dealing with anything crypto-related go completely overboard with backups, cuz wth even your flash drives can get corrupted easier than you think from things as simple as temperature fluctuations. IF your storing any 'critical' data on flash drives, go the xtra mile and use SLC (single-layer cells) drives as their the most resilient to physical and environmental related data corruption!
Like I said, I've earned everything back thru trading non-stop over the last 3 months because I was SO driven by it. Anyways, in the end, I'm somehow better after going thru that. I learned ALOT, so I look at it as a really expensive computer training course. Thanks again though for your ideas! One more thing...GO STRAT! 👍

If you could read the file ... Notepad uses ANSI encoding