Jan 12, 2021 PhotoRec is a File Recovery program designed to recover lost files; including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks, CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory (thus, its Photo. Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It is used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. Both applications are included in.
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Computer crashed? Important files deleted? We got them all recovered!
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Ever cried over damaged disk holding your bitcoin wallet ? Everformatted storage holding a perfectly valid and the only copy of yourwallet.dat ? Yes, me too. Well, there’sPhotorec, an opensource filerecovery software. It just skips the partition and filesystem info andscans for plain file signatures on the disk. Unfortunately it does notrecognize Bitcoin’s Wallet as a file format. Bitcoin wikistates that wallet.dat is just agood old BerkeleyDB. Just let me check that with the famous
file
command:That is right. Photorec however, has its own file-typedetection magic. Let’s see whether it works on the wallet.
Uhoh. Do not abandon hope for not all is lost ! Photorec provides awayfor you to add custom signatures. The only missing ingredient appears tobe the knowledge possed by the
file
command. Just check your linux installation forfile
's detection signatures. On my system these are to be foundunder /usr/share/misc/magic
. We need file extensions, offset and somemagic number for Photorec to work. Well, extension is .dat
, magicsand offsets are stored in the file mentioned above. Translate offsetsfrom decimal-based to hexs and take care of endianess and done :)Photoreceptors
That is it. Happy wallet recovery.