Thank you, i had downloaded an html page with the name pywallet.py,  i hadn't looked into the code.

After using it this is the result in the command window:

The new wallet c:\wallets/recovered_wallet_1383137342.dat contains the 229 recovered keys

And the next files in the folder i used as output:

http://i41.tinypic.com/33wxfdv.jpg

I renamed "recovered_wallet_1383137342.dat" to wallet.dat and used it as my wallet on my computer, and after opening bitcoin -qt it wouldn't return any error message but after loading the full block it is empty and it doesn't have any cents or even addresses in the addresses tab, only a long list of labels and addresses under the "receive" tab, with the name recovered:labelname and an address name in the next column.

Can i consider my cents lost ?

Im trying it now, but i have two basic questions

I download the latest pywallet version, placed it in the same folder i had my previous one after deleting the first.
In the previous version (1.1 i think), when doing from command line a pywallet.py --version it would return the version, but in this case, when i simply do from the windows command line a pywallet.py --version, it returns this:

C:\Users\unknown user\Desktop\pywallet>pywallet.py --version
  File "C:\Users\unknown user\Desktop\pywallet\pywallet.py", line 4
   
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


And second question:

in the command option s "c:\path\to\your\wallet.dat", if i am supposed to search within a deleted hard drive for wallets/keys, how can i point to a wallet? Should i point to the location where my wallet was before i erased the files?

thank you!

So as far as i can see, the recovery option will search for the wallet patter within a whole hard drive?

I thought it would try to fix a wallet, already recovered using some file recovering sofware as i did, instead.

Ok, tomorrow i'll try to use the tool over my old hard drive where i detected i had my old wallet deleted, i haven't used it ever since.

Ill let know how it works

thank you!

Im checking now your message.

I deleted by mistake my wallet (with all my computer info) and i was able to recover it using a program named "recuva", but i haven't been able to make it work.

I think i had my wallet encrypted too. So i dont know what to do to recover the coins (cents) in this case, is not just the money, but being ableto save the wallet and learn a procedure just in case this happens again.

Hi again, sorry for the delay reaplying.

Yes, i actually did try to open the wallet with bitcoin -qt and it keeps returning the error in the capture attached below.

Of course its OK senting it to you, i really want to know whats going wrong and how to solve this again if it happens in the future.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2v8ipls.jpg

No Bitcoin client is not running when doing this. Should it be?

I follow these steps:

I open my cmd console, and execute from it on my desktop pywallet.py --web, and get the next message (see capture)

http://i39.tinypic.com/2uxvbs1.jpg

Then i open the web browser in the address http://localhost:8989/ And i get the next info in the console:


http://i40.tinypic.com/27zkhnn.jpg

And when i set the path to my wallet and try to dump it, i get the next error in the console

http://i44.tinypic.com/2mhy6vk.jpg

Should i follow the first warning and install that package? "WARNING:root:pycrypto or libssl not found, decryption may be slow
'ecdsa' package is not installed, pywallet won't be able to sign/verify messages"

Thank you

Thanks for the answer Jack, i still get this error, see captures of web and console interfaces:

http://i40.tinypic.com/14x1g9g.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/xp0u9d.jpg

PS. "unknown" is my username in this computer, not that the user name is unknown for the system or whatever problem you might figure out of it

When i try to recover my wallet (comes from thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291333.0) i get the next error on the web interface:

"Error in dump page"

i have installed python 2.7 and pywallet, i made the web interface working by opening a command mode, and placing my pywallet.py and pywallet.bat files on my desktop (where my wallet.dat is too) and running the next command  from the windows cmd console: "pywallet --info wallet.dat"

i am probably doing something wrong i known

I deleted accidentally my old partition, with all the data on it, stupid me, i only stored the -qt client, thinking it would store the bitcoins, but not the wallet.dat file

anyway, using deleted file software, called recuva, i was able to get three copies of my wallet.dat file

i guess these files are correspond to three different moments, since i received only three payments from my mining pool, and these files have different sizes.

my bitcoin-qt client is unable to read them when i place them (any of them) in my user folder where wallet.dat file should be

These are encrypted (or i think so, as i entered a password on my bitcoin client)

so how can i recover these corrupted files) is there anyway?

i did not only loose my bitcoins but also my bitcoin address that has been used for another payment, even after deleting it, so these bitcoins must be "lost" in the bitcoin limbo...

please help, its not alot of money (im talking about cents) but is more a kind of challenge of being able to recover it

Thanks for your answer b!z, i have been able also to recover three deleted wallets using recuva where i think my bitcoins might be, its not a lot of money, but i really want to learn how to use and solve these problems, more than the economic loss.

Recuva found three wallet.dat files that renamed to wallet.dat wallet1.dat and wallet2.dat i tried to change names to wallet.dat and making my qt client to read all the wallets and all the times i got the same error message: corrupt file

what command should i use? these wallets btw have different sizes, 72, 88 and 104 KBs.  probably because i received only two payments ?? (its my guess)

what should i try to recover these wallets (which i guess its the same wallet in different moments, its just my guess, i might be wrong)

i'm sure i used the same client, thats for sure

i think i remember i had encrypted it, but im not so sure

what should i see when opening the wallet in the case of being encrypted and in the case of not being?

I opened it with notepad and notepad++ (a copy of it) and only strange characters are being shown

when i placed it in the folder you told me guys and opening bitcoin, it would tell me that the file is corrupt

im trying to do something with bitcointools-master but unsucessfully so far

Ok i found a wallet.dat file from some previous back up but to be honest but i'm not sure if its the one i was looking for... anyway

how do i check how much is inside that wallet.dat file?

i dont seem to have a wallet.dat in the bitcoin-0.8.1-win32 folder from my laptop... strange :S

I have two computers (with windows installed), and installed in both of them a bitcoin wallet (bitcoin-0.8.1-win32). a laptop and a desktop.

Since i had to replace my laptop hard drive,i made a back up and copied an pasted the full drive into a secondary hard drive in my desktop, (a storage hard drive you know...). Overmore i made a copy of the "bitcoin-0.8.1-win32" folder into a flash drive too.

I had some bitcoins on my laptop, thats why i backed it up. But my desktop wallet was empty.

Now when i try to open any of the wallets from my desktop, all my bitcoins are missing!

I noticed that executing bitcoin-qt.exe would open always the same wallet as the "receiving addresses" shown, no matter what instance of bitcoin-qt.exe is executed is always the same, and none of the times is the address i had on my laptop (i know the address, as it is kept in the mining pool where i made my bitcoins).

I even tried to uninstall bitcoin from my desktop and when execting either the bitcoin-qt.exe on my secondary hard drive with the laptoback or my flash drive, it keeps showing the same address on the wallet, as if there where some kind of redirection to some user setting or anything?

what can i do to get back my bitcoins?

I haven't deleted ANY information, only moved it between drives, but it should be there somewhere.

I've been mining hard a few months back with my GPU and obtained a few cents, not many but enough before i received my ASIC from BFL last week.

I had my wallet on my old hard drive, made a back up of the wallet (i think i encrypted it), and kept it (a copy) in a usb drive.

THen made even a third copy in another hard drive... And now

i run again my bitcoin wallet and my bitocins are not there ((

even when i check my receiving address it even doesn't match the addressi used to received my bitcoins (made in the eclipe pool, the transactions are stored there with my -missing- bitcoin address)

So now i dont know how to get back my bitcoins, i dont know what happened here, has anybody stolen my bitcoins? Why isn't my old address showing up when opening my wallet since i didn't delete it? Are my bitcoins encrypted anywhere or what?

I dont know what to do (