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Re: Wallet.dat fragmented from OS resintallation on HDD
by
ABCbits
on 03/03/2025, 09:46:03 UTC
What would the best tool for recovery attempt be and would R-Studio proffesional version help with this case?
That tool would certainly help but since you've mentioned that it's already formatted (hope it wasn't random/zero-filled) and installed with an OS,
It's highly likely that the wallet will be corrupted upon recovery.

Drive formatting which perform random/zero fill could took few hours, so most software usually perform quick format. Although reinstalling OS (which also create swap-file with moderate size) write fair amount of data.

Hello everyone,

I found an old HDD where i was mining bitcoin.
The hdd was formatted with OS re-installation.

What would the best tool for recovery attempt be and would R-Studio proffesional version help with this case?

I have spent the last few days learning about hex searches if rhe file does not appear from ordinary scan function

Consider pywallet[1], it can scan whole HDD and image file of your HDD.

[1] https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet