How to recover forgotten BTC wallet password.

in btc •  7 years ago  (edited)

This is the steps of how to recover your btc from the wallet.dat file. Which password has been forgotten.

You need to know that I could remember that I used 8 character for my password. But I couldn’t remember what was it.

Caution: This have to be done with your own risk. If anything disaster happened applying this steps I couldn’t be liable for it.

Step 1.) Download BTCRecover from Github: (https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover
Step 2.) Extract the files to your Desktop, now you should have a folder named “btcrecover-master” on your Desktop
Step 3.) Create a new .txt-file on your Desktop and name it tokens.txt – Open the tokens.txt and write this in it: %8P then put the tokens.txt into the “btcrecover-master” folder
Step 4.) Make a Copy of your Wallet.dat and copy it in the btcrecover-master folder – Now you have your tokens.txt and your Wallet.dat in the btcrecover-master folder.
Step 5.) Open the command prompt, now you should see this: “C:\Users\XYZ” type here now: “cd desktop” than “cd btcrecover-master” now it should look like this: “C:\Users\XYZ\Desktop\btcrecover-master>”
Step 6.) Ok, last Step, type this into the commend prompt: “C:\python27\python btcrecover.py –wallet wallet.dat –no-dupchecks –tokenlist tokens.txt”
Step 7.) Wait for btcrecover to crack your passwordbtc.jpeg

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How would I know that's not a virus?

Its tasted from and applied for my own. I didn't have that issue. But though its a trust issue then you have to create an wallet in your computer then put 0.000001 btc in it then try

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