Hi , briefly in 2012 I zipped a wallet.dat and renamed it to .jpg ,

the drive had been formatted to NTFS.

the recovery software has brought the .jpg home but it is not able to return to .zip

without headers lost in recovery?>
these are start of a wallet.dat > wallet.zip ...here.

PK.........€ÿL:¨ëa—È...@......wallet - Copy.datì].8”í.žo0Ö².}ߗìk‰,I–Ê^...%k’.²FÙ³.¬E.J¤E$ûRD²•]RÙ..çûtüÍä?g8×uÎå\×<×ÿþ5ÏÜï}¿ïý|ëûÍL00.د°.'€.C.a..ñ¯Ü.ØïX.kD.ú..Œ.u„.ý=ø:f...¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\ü/.øgûý..Š. Xd›b.ó¸çÿ¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\à..¸À..p..\l»À_{2.‡þt8iw.JýÊü‹ïÿÃÿÃçÿx0\ü?..Øî .?pÙîŒkÐÈ:.zDWá«J›ë-Ëàµ÷ùÄðÐp.EÈ.„Ž›'\Ðmq?rm\ô‹u#ß/œ.Ñ/..ØÜï .n§..½x3£¡ACL^´.Nmýr5$.|¯...ŽË§•|<óíè%_öàÁš.Å.†Î0Ž5ÜKYt][±÷S—93TvÜ.›ßíz½—Ž¶ö—n.'1:.{í.Rï'

and the end of the zip file ... here.

.uö.€;.¾.Póum4.éæp±òÞÙl«•â=J¼òÄG.L¯GQx…º0é*=.™I—.Pý‡Œ.¬.Ž(‡šÝ._Ù.S{E.¾ºxõQò.æ)..nŽ8 M.@ÅG.Õ«œ#2…`rG{dY¡êP59ÖÎé2‘°ÞÆeCú”ñ~`.¨øàbÝþ0°.¬L³eº.Ès‘›Ù„·ß–•yÁRö”X¿œÖ.˜ñÏã.¼W 0.T|<›OãÈåg\.Ü.Á9¼Wˆ‹$‡=‰.Ü`]²NÂÒÁIÏ.Ð.¹dü->þ.PK..?........€ÿL:¨ëa—È...@....$....... .......wallet - Copy.dat.. .........®o^¸“(Ô.•ý.á“(Ô.•ý.á“(Ô.PK..........c...ÆÈ....


with lots in between , any idea where i can cut the data and replace mine in and restore the zip file ? is it able ? im a novice

next two strings are the beginning and ending of my file .....

¢ñÙb`ýmÔmW¿¾q‘uvǟ™[œ.pie‘äm.Š¬m.Ú.L4֔ ®o:. êm5d,â>ÁXç}*¡.&œFø.2h»>K§F½x°.÷È.ò-¿¢9„J@å...ë6GÓf(¶±í¨).Eí}ÕÊÿŸ.%".–¡C.ÍÜ.ò!¯Ð[ÄVµM.%Îi둕•>`\V6™.ûqL.¶œ.æB…èÌ&..{|ªXœ...Nÿ.üó²ðnæy.ùÿ.1™®qäÍsýÔ.wAiõ*.¯Rñó4

and ends in


.€ÂÎÙùÕÂùk€¸ßôh¨:Ö/ê]˜‘TS.¿üLçw/©$E7.é.¾Ôª/i®..h#?»7l;zIe`T,,ÅJhìžï¡ìf.‘à@‚ñõ.¨._Å{§FÓÞM^ºÒò}=x!YwZÖ.©.^ºJçÛ.yg:.=_ÂÐÖZ%Lúå.@ò;J£._8YÀ.Æ|A.ë?‚¦í ”Új°‰£Ë_HÕ.^qðR§†ÐpKòÿ.ge‹‘½)ž=S)ÅWÔÄ.r+


thanks any help appreiciated !!
have a good day !!


(edit ) the wallet ive zipped and shown here is empty wallet.dat from core 16

 the data is from wallet ver 0.4 ....