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If you didn't shred the hard drive and haven't defragged it or anything, there's a good chance that the private keys are able to be recovered. There are scripts
by wowcanteven 13y ago
If you didn't shred the hard drive and haven't defragged it or anything, there's a good chance that the private keys are able to be recovered. There are scripts that will scan a drive for fragments that look like bitcoin-qt wallet files and dump the keys.
- anigbrowl 13y agoInteresting. I'm not sure which disk its on and it might well be corrupt but I had various components that I was going to make into a secondary desktop or donation machine so I suppose I should check while I test, it might pay for itself!
- wowcanteven 13y agoHere's what I've used: http://www.makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover-0.3-linux.tar.gz http://www.makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover-0.3-linux.tar.gz Put this on a bootable usb with ubuntu or something and run it against the drive in question. Let it run overnight, and in the morning, you may find yourself with a windfall. Here's the thread with more info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0 After it runs, it will create a wallet.dat file that you will load with bitcoin-qt. If it works and you have the private keys, I would recommend exporting them into a better format, like an electrum or armory wallet.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThanks!