Hard Drive Failure. Wallet question.
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I lost my SSD on Friday, wallet and all. Is everything there permanently gone? If so, luckily it wasn’t much as I was only testing mining running on my home PC on one card. Still made roughly 1USD per day it seemed. Reinstalled the wallet, don’t currently see where I could put in my old info. Assistance would be greatly appreciated!
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Do you have a backup of your wallet.dat or noted your private keys somewhere?
If yes, no harm is done to the wallet and your coins.
If no your coins are lost. -
@wellenreiter said in Hard Drive Failure. Wallet question.:
Do you have a backup of your wallet.dat or noted your private keys somewhere?
If yes, no harm is done to the wallet and your coins.
If no your coins are lost.I have the original wallet ID still on the feathercoin mining pool. I’ve only just reinstalled almost everything, and saved the wallet to something other than my main drive. I will be backing the wallet up frequently this time.
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With Wallet Id you mean the Feathercoin address of the wallet?
That doesn’t help.
What you need is a backup of your private keys.
You can get that backup in several ways:- backup your ~/.feathercoin/wallet.dat file (linux) of your %appdata%\feathercoin\wallet.dat file (windows)
- trigger a backup from the wallet gui. This option is dependent on the version of the wallet and not always available.
- open a command window from the wallet’s debug menu and type
‘exportprivatekey <your wallet address>’ and copy paste/write down the string that is returned. repeat this step for every address of the wallet.
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@wellenreiter said in Hard Drive Failure. Wallet question.:
With Wallet Id you mean the Feathercoin address of the wallet?
That doesn’t help.
What you need is a backup of your private keys.
You can get that backup in several ways:- backup your ~/.feathercoin/wallet.dat file (linux) of your %appdata%\feathercoin\wallet.dat file (windows)
- trigger a backup from the wallet gui. This option is dependent on the version of the wallet and not always available.
- open a command window from the wallet’s debug menu and type
‘exportprivatekey <your wallet address>’ and copy paste/write down the string that is returned. repeat this step for every address of the wallet.
Well, guess Im screwed then. At least it was on my home PC running a month long test on one card. And not something more serious. Thank you for the assistance Wellen.
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