What we do know is that it is very likely the file system meta data is lost after continued use of the drive. But our dilemma is that we can not tell for certain if the file was ever overwritten or miraculously survived.
Overwritten data can not be recovered, that is a simple fact. Consult a data recovery lab, do not DIY, any minute the SSD is powered, the less chance there is to recover the data! It depends in drive model and firmware, but a lab may be able to access trimmed data using PC3000 software/hardware.Īs the drive is continued being used, there is a good chance the deleted or lost wallet.dat is overwritten.By doing to you prevent garbage collector erasing stale blocks. If the wallet represents significant value: SSD now considers them stale blocks which will at some point be actually erased by garbage collector. If you delete a wallet.dat from an SSD, associated LBA blocks are probably trimmed within seconds, ordinary file recovery software will only be able to recover zeros from these blocks. At the bottom of this post I’ll list software that I consider solid data recovery software.Ībove is true as long as the drive the wallet.dat was deleted from an SSD!! I am not going further into this, you should be able solve this using instructions that came with the software. You should be able to recover or undelete the wallet.dat from the location where you left it after scanning the drive. In scenario 1 the file should be recoverable using any decent file recovery software as it is a very standard situation in which a good part of file system meta data survived. Hard drive containing the wallet.dat was put aside since the accident and no longer used.We need to distinguish between several scenarios, all I have seen online: It is very well possible that the recovered wallet.dat is not in perfect condition, I can not help you repair it, but will point to sources which possibly can. So, I will concentrate on recovery of the wallet.dat file since I do know something about data recovery. Note that I know very little about Bitcoins, I just became interested in recovering the file seen the great lengths of trouble people go through to get it back. Since worth of the Bitcoins was trivial back then, no attempts were made to recover the wallet. It’s no surprise people are becoming more interested in recovering these files considering the current value of a Bitcoin. dat file” and similar without revealing the nature of the file. Or sometimes people are more vague, like “I am trying to recover a. Story often goes something like: “I have this old hard drive that was formatted but contained a Bitcoin wallet”. In various forums and online communities there seems to be a significant influx of people trying to recover old Bitcoin wallets. ĭisclaimer: This is a quick write up, and so it does not even touch my usual not so high standards.
My Bitcoin wallet had little value back then.
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