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Re: Cannot restore my BTC wallet with a seed frase.
by
nodc3
on 02/08/2025, 18:24:25 UTC
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You were quite successful with that, likely not as intended by you, because "noone" includes yourself!
Haha, yes!
I’ve found out h is equal to ‘ in derivation path empirically.
I have a flashback where I was changing h to ‘ next to number 44. So most probablythe beginning is m/44’/
And I remember it had more than one ‘.
It seems that you almost did all possible ways to restore your original wallet.
And you also tried to recover the deleted wallet file on the MacBook, but you didn't mention what tool you used?
Would you mind telling us what tool you used to recover the wallet file?

I'd like to suggest you try Disk Drill to scan the whole drive, and let's see if it could find "default_wallet."

If it doesn't work, then your last hope is to know what you did to your seed phrase before making any copy.
I am thinking maybe you did scramble a few phrase? Or maybe you change the last part of your seed phrase?

If yes then try to brute force it using The finderOuter check the link below

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5214021.0
I was using Disk Drill, even did all the complicated stuff with lowering my disk security for deep scan.
No clouds, backups, nothing.
Pfrase is right Im sure.
Just to confirm you are seeing a green orb in the bottom right of the electrum window? What version of electrum are you using?


Yes.
I feel like I did a good progress today in remembering some details today. Also did a lot of structured brute forcing by hands.Will continue tomorrow. And thx everyone for trying to help, means a lot now.