gurnec / btcrecover

An open source Bitcoin wallet password and seed recovery tool designed for the case where you already know most of your password/seed, but need assistance in trying different possible combinations.
GNU General Public License v2.0
1.27k stars 678 forks source link

Blockchain.info wallet from 2014 #176

Open aroundtheblockchainer opened 6 years ago

aroundtheblockchainer commented 6 years ago

So I'm not a novice at following instructions, and I've followed all the instructions in the guides for btrecover but for some reason any time I click on seedrecover.py I get this screen:

image

then I click on open and nothing happens.

My issue is (relatively) simple. I have a bitcoin wallet from 2014 for which the 18 word mnemonic is incorrect. When I submit the mnemonic I have from all those years ago, I receive a Checksum Error. Is there any way someone can point me in the right direction to try and recover my mnemonic? I know that three of the eighteen words may have been copied incorrectly as they're not conventional English words, so I have somewhat of a head start. I just need to try and recover this mnemonic so I can access my wallet.

If anyone could please point me in the right direction, as I don't mind doing some research myself but so far 5 hours of research has returned zero results including btrecover not working as it should.

Thanks

kost123 commented 6 years ago

you have to run it from the command line, press the windows icon on bottom left of your screen, type in cmd.exe and you will see a black box with "run command" or "command prompt" under it.

For all the options you will need to type after that you should read the btcrecover documentation for it here: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/docs/Seedrecover_Quick_Start_Guide.md

aroundtheblockchainer commented 6 years ago

I tried that..still end up with the same screen and then nothing happens..

kost123 commented 6 years ago

try the following

assoc | findstr "\.py"

You should get the following results:


.py=Python.File
.pyc=Python.CompiledFile
.pyo=Python.CompiledFile
.pyw=Python.NoConFile

and

ftype | findstr "Python"

should give you:

Python.CompiledFile="C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*
Python.File="C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*
Python.NoConFile="C:\Python27\pythonw.exe" "%1" %*

If any of those are missing, commands such as the following examples should fix them:

assoc .py=Python.File
ftype Python.File="C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*

Also, in Windows Explorer, right click on a .py file and select Open with... and see if it says python.exe or vim.exe. If it's wrong, you should be able to change it there.

pedrohrcunha commented 6 years ago

What version of Python are you using? It only works in 2.7.14 (NOT ANY OTHER!)

pedrohrcunha commented 6 years ago

203

rterwedo commented 6 years ago

@aroundtheblockchainer did you get this figured out, do you need help?

aroundtheblockchainer commented 6 years ago

@rterwedo nope nearly 5 months later still haven't been able to figure it out. admittedly I haven't been focusing all my attention to this for all that time, and it's become increasingly likely that I never will be able to recover this key meaning that the money in that wallet is lost forever, so I'm kinda slowly giving up if I'm honest.

jonathancross commented 5 years ago

Try https://walletrecoveryservices.com -- I don't know then personally, but they have a good reputation.