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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Old HDD with wallet.dat, several reformatting and heavy use, is all hope lost?
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ETFbitcoin
on 15/07/2021, 08:53:33 UTC
However, there are few other magic bytes you could try such as 62 31 05 00 09 00 00 00 according to https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/41450.
I tried but couldn't find anything. I also tried the other bytes in the linked post. I found some results for "defaultkey" but what follows the string is "site-packages/route.py". I guess it's from some other apps and not what a normal wallet.dat file contains?

It's definitely from another application, Bitcoin-qt (today it's called Bitcoin Core) mostly use C++ and AFAIK the compiled version never include raw source source.