one more question:
I've given it a first try using recuva. recuva has recovered a lot of files, some of them are archives with only numbers as names, some are different types of document formats.
1) will the wallet.dat be a .dat file, so i can easily detect it, or could it be a archive file or something like that?
2) what is the fastest way to detect the .dat file from the recovered files without checking every file by hand?
@jackg
thank you for your feedback regarding ease us. will give it a try if recuva fails.
Does it give you the number of .dat files it detects while running in recuva? I think it should be a .dat file (though what do the archive files have an extension of)?
archives are ending on .zip, they are of all sizes (4 kb to 1.9 GB).
check hasn't run through all the way so i do not know the number of .dat files, but i've seen two so far.