bitcoin/bitcoin — Issue #881: Wallet.dat corrupted after bitcoin encryption
Author: krishKM
Created: 2012-02-21 22:54:27+00:00
State: open

Hi there,

Yesterday night I have encrypted my wallet using bitcoin tool. today when I open bitcoin tool It shows "loading block index" and than throws an error "Wallet.dat corrupted". Now I cannot access my wallet. I'm using Win7 64bit.

I have created new wallet.dat by renaming old wallet.dat to wallet-old.dat. with new wallet the bitcoin tool opens fine, even I can encrypt the new wallet works fine aswell. I just don't know what happened to my original wallet.dat. I'm new to bitcoin topic and I don't understand why the bitcoin folder is 1.3 GB.

Is there any way I can recover my address back? because I have locked that adress in a mining website (deepbit). it would be very thankful if anyone gives clue how to recover the wallet.dat in windows environment. All I see on google is either linux solutions which I have zero knowledge.

PS: I dont mind sharing half of the money the wallet has if i get it back.