>had a giant fucking greentext typed up but nobody would see the important shit
fuck it, long story short, I found my old laptop at my dad's place around thanksgiving. He reminded me that he got pissed the fuck off that I blew birthday money when I was 14 on bitcoin.
>he seemed to remember being really mad at me so I asked him how much I spent >"$250" >check historical charts for my birthday month >december 2011; average of two fucking dollars
Just now had time to restore the laptop.
>pic related
The files from 2014 and some of the 2016 files are from mid-2011 to early 2012.
>here's the problem
everything is fucking corrupt. Bad. Electrum (tested all new and old versions) crashes every time an open attempt is made. If it doesn't crash, it throws an error about null bytes at '0x[whatever value]'
I've spent the last week trying to crawl through hex, ascii, and character codes in np++ looking for any workable scraps of a private key or seed to no avail. I can't even run brute-force recovery tools because there's no seed to pull a recovery from even though I know the potential passwords.
I've tried dumping keys from the wallets with no luck. I aim to try repairing the wallet with the core bitcoin client but don't expect to have much success with that (also >158gb download, fuck me.)
So I propose to you fellow Veeky Forumsnessmen, if anyone has any fucking clue, or can brainstorm/research enough on how to get access to these wallets (at least the oldest ones) then this money is just as much yours as mine.
Wrong image, the OP is including some files it pulled from a phone I had connected trying to recover as well, this is the pull from the laptop drives
the word list on the right is all search terms i entered for recovery, if I should add something, tell me and I'll run it again
Isaiah Ramirez
If the wallet.dat is corrupt then you may need to seek a professional
Josiah Russell
I've been thinking as much and if nobody can offer anything else for those files then I likely will.
there are also others, though, such as png files that *might* contain useful info (not sure, but see other pic for reference) and numerous files that are seed backups.
Charles Edwards
If your wallet.dat file is broken you're probably just straight up fucked. The data in there is not stored in human readable form, and reconstructing anything from it is pretty much impossible.
I've done quite a few lectures in cyber security (t. actually software engineer), and maybe something can be done. Nothing I could be able to tell from here through, I do need the files for that.
Unless you want to publically share them with me or anyone else I'm afraid there isn't much I can do
Easton Garcia
Lame attempt dude
Lincoln Baker
>Just now had time to restore the laptop What did you mean by this? Did you do some sort of disk recovery? If you haven't already, you should treat the hard drive like it's a big case of money. Carefully clone everything to a different drive and power the original off. That will make professional recovery easier if needed.
Is *everything* in the screenshot corrupt? Even the text files? If you're able to track down the public address you can at least get an idea of your wallet balance and judge if professional recovery is worth it.
Also, obviously, don't post the files anywhere for anyone.
Ryan Young
What do you expect me to do? Look at a cropped image of some file system and be like "yep all you gotta do is run outguess on this encrypted file and all will be k"
You literally expect me to do magic?
David Cox
> You literally expect me to do magic? Yes.
Jaxson Richardson
Just take it to a fucking professional lol, clone the drive as best you can and don't risk fucking it up any more than it already is
Logan Ross
First you say that he's straight up fucked and impossible and then afterwards that something MAYBE can be done ? U sneaky user. Just guide him little bit send him on the right track
Julian Wilson
kek
like I said some are worse off than others. While some just outright crash wallets, others just present an error for a single bad byte (though there are plenty more, just not as many) and I've seen those repaired before, to some extent
I'm just not aware of the best techniques for recovery (at least that I can do)
already have, these files were pulled from the cloned drive. Afaik the unit has been powered off for years without any use. Tbh though if I can avoid going to a professional and try anything possible at home (absolute last resort) i will. Do not fucking trust someone to not take as much as they'd like and just tell me the file was unrecoverable.
>related
I was able to restore a file just by pulling it from a laptop I used in 2015 or so, but the wallet contained just about $300 in btc, so nothing major.
Hudson Parker
what's so hard about "I'd have to look at the files I can't tell anything from here"? Doing anything based on a screenshot of a filesystem is like you expecting me to predict the MHz of the next Nvidia flagship based on the color of their latest box
Chase Wright
I hope you backed up the original files first? You should start opening the file in the Bitcoin client of that year as things might have changed in wallet data format etc. I hope you didn't resave the file. Then just find someone on Bitcoin talk to help u
James Gonzalez
Not your personal tech support. Thanks for destroying more of the supply and making me richer with your stupidity.
Adam Diaz
start with the core bitcoin client you were using regardless of the update. If that will work than it's worth a shot
Ethan Foster
>(You)
I'll try the client from that time and see if that works prior to trying the updated one.
Liam Hughes
Post dropbox and return BTC address for loots
Camden Morgan
If you want to take a somewhat leap of faith, feel free to email me:
I am pretty sure I can fix this for you. You can send me one of the newer default_wallet files you are more sure have nothing in them. If I can get one of them to work, I'll tell you how I did it and you can use the same method on the older wallet to unlock the money yourself.
If not, good luck!
Austin Brown
For amounts maybe check emails etc for confirmation of buying BTC? If you bought it from a website that is.
So *everything* there is corrupt? Is the Address_1 Access file relevant at all? Or just something that was included in the search?
Cameron King
barring any professional being unable to help I'll keep it in mind
andthe text files aren't corrupt but contain worthless data (most are even empty), the access files are a bit of a mystery to me. I never used access or even had it installed on that PC, and the files restored as access databases by default...but they are corrupt, I assume, because access doesn't recognize them
Thomas Smith
I'm going to get some beers and then I'll sit down and we'll see if we can fix this for you.
No charge, I just like a challenge.
Adrian Taylor
Just a thought, was your search software excluding hidden files? Sometimes important wallet stuff can be in AppData which is hidden by default.
Could we get in an IRC channel or something for the people that want to help? May be an easier way to communicate.
Noah Watson
Ok since everyone wants me to do magic, here's some todos for ya.
1) Recall how the hdd was stored. Did it get shaken/dropped/exposed to temperature fluctuations? If yes you're probably fucked.
2) Did you run SMART on it yet? If no, go run that. It will fix bad sectors if the parity isn't fucked. If it's fucked, you're probably fucked too.
(here you have the chance to bring it to professional data recovery to see if the magnet disk might be salvagable; if not you're properly fucked)
3) If the hdd is physically ok (eg the first 2 points didnt fuck you) you've got a software issue at your hand. First identify which file system your're running (probably fucking NTFS because fuck data integrity right?) then mount that fucker into some linux/bsd distro of your choice and run testdisk/ddrescue on it. Hell maybe you need a completely different tool, how the fuck am I supposed to know what's wrong.
4) If all of this didn't help you'll bring it to some """specialist""" who can't fix it either but charges you 200 bucks to tell you. Enjoy.
Austin Hughes
god speed user
Jonathan Young
I included the hidden files
thanks user, I'll see about setting up irc or something like suggested
1. Stored in a climate controlled area, afaik shut down properly, no damage, just old 2. No, will do this. 3. Actually attempting to load it all into ubuntu now 4. Basically why I want to avoid a professional
Jack Cox
>Did you run SMART on it yet? If no, go run that. Powering on the drive again should definitely be a last resort. SMART will give only you the drive self-diagnostic data, it will not fix bad sectors.
Easton Rivera
>Actually attempting to load it all into ubuntu now
Let us know how that goes first.
Anthony Robinson
Were your wallets encrypted?
If so, you literally have nothing to lose sending one of us some test files to check if they are loadable (we wouldn't be able to extract private keys from them).
If you left them unencrypted, them I understand you'd probably not want to send us anything (I'd probably be the same).
You're otherwise in an unfortunate situation where people are just as unwilling to help, as there is also no guarantee you'd stick to your half of the bargain and just keep everything for yourself.
If lucky, you'll get a benevolent 4channer willing to help for nothing though ;)
Oliver James
Format
Angel Allen
they were all encrypted, as far as I know/can tell. Assuming that unencrypted ones would be easily readable and much easier to recover manually, but could be wrong. Once I get this ubuntu vm up and running and can go through it I'll see
Connor Price
please tell me you're getting a prebuilt one from osboxes, right?
Justin Cook
no; rarely have a need to use a vm, should I be?
Robert Jones
you can skip the whole setting up ordeal and just download a runnable vm image
Joshua Clark
Bump - progress?
Cooper Williams
working on some stuff, will update either here or in new thread. Prior to moving it all in to ubuntu I'm going to try and grab files from the cloned drive again with better software (only used recuva, looking at better options now) and see if I can pull better versions or other related files with more clues
