Hello I used Recuva on an old HDD from 2013/2014 and found a wallet.dat file. Recuva said the wallet.dat file was in excellent condition. I tried using 2 versions of Bitcoin Core (0.21.1 and 0.8.6) to read the wallet.dat and was given the warning "wallet.dat corrupt, salvage failed". I installed Python 2.7.11, Pywallet, and all its dependencies and tried the following commands.
Pywallet DumpWallet Attempt:python pywallet.py --dumpwallet --datadir=./ --wallet=wallet.dat
'ecdsa' package is not installed, pywallet won't be able to sign/verify messages
ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main. Try quitting Bitcoin and running this again. (Bitcore was not open)
Pywallet Recovery Attempt:I reformatted a flash drive in FAT32 and put the wallet.dat file in it and attempted the following recovery code
python pywallet.py --recover --recov_device=E:\wallet.dat --recov_size=14.5Gio --recov_outputdir=.
Found 0 possible wallets
Found 0 possible encrypted keys
Found 0 possible unencrypted keys
WindowsError: exception: access violation reading 0x000000005FF07E98
The wallet.dat file is 328KB. I inspected it using a HexEditor and Notepad++ and it doesn't look corrupted. When I search notepad++ for '
key', there is 1 match, but when I search for
'name' there are no matches. My next step is to recover the HDD using GetDataBack instead of Recuva, and then reattempt what I have done so far. I would appreciate any help!
I'm in the same boat as this guy. Except things are shuffled in the wallet. I can find ke and y1 and na and me but pywallet leads to the same error. I did try --recover but no keys were found. Any ideas what command to try or where to proceed next?