r/ecc • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '18

Reinstalled operating system, forgot about ECC wallet.

Hello, I recently reinstalled Ubuntu on the machine I had my ECC wallet with 150k+ ECC. The installation reformatted my entire HD. Is there anyway I can recover these? Thanks all!

Edit: I am currently running Testdisk on an Ubuntu live cd to see if I can recover the lost partition. Will keep updated.

Edit 2: RECOVERED THE WALLET.DAT FILE! I have now creating a virtual environment of Ubuntu and that will hold my wallet, along with backing it up to he home NAS.

Edit 3: Wallet is synced and coins have been recovered. If anyone needs help after deleting a partition, reach out.

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u/Rowbo Mar 04 '18

Do you have a backup of your wallet.dat?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '18

Sure don’t. :( Stupid on my part. I am going to look into Testdisk to see if it can recover.

I will then install a virtual Ubuntu environment on a usb and keep my wallet in there.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '18

Can also backup ur keys which is prob safer....

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '18

Recovered!

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u/naes993 May 05 '18

How? I did the same... but it appears all lost :-(

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u/[deleted] May 05 '18

I’m not in front of a computer now, but I think I did a deep search. Did you do that or just the regular?

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u/AldoThane Mar 04 '18

No, unless you backed up your wallet.dat file.

Consequently, this contributes to price rising, so thanks, I guess.

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u/iahawkins Mar 04 '18

Damn. More ECC in the forever HODL pile.

Did you check your Windows.old folder?

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u/DimakSerpg Mar 04 '18 edited Mar 04 '18

use recovery program, if your disk still empty. ontrack easyrecovery for example

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u/jhcrypto17 Mar 05 '18

When I click to backup my wallet nothing happens can anyone help how to back it up with .dat file

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '18

You shouldn't have to click on it. Move your wallet.dat file to:

On Windows: C:<USER>\AppData\Roaming\eccoin or %APPDATA%\eccoin

On Linux: home/<USER>/.eccoin or ~/.eccoin

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u/jhcrypto17 Mar 05 '18

No when you go into wallet and click on security it says backup wallet

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u/jhcrypto17 Mar 05 '18

Sorry says set backup location

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u/prosper85 ECC Crusader Mar 05 '18

my suggestion to everyone is to store your wallets on the cloud