Lost Encryptfs Partition with 100 DRK

darkcrypt

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I have a spare laptop that I had installed Xubuntu 14.10 on that is mainly used for keeping a trusted & secure software base for my various cryptocoin wallets. Both full disk encryption (crypt-fs) and user home directory encryption were selected during install. I made the mistake of creating a usb installer [using "dd"] for Ubuntu on another machine via terminal on the laptop that contains my Dark Wallet. Instead of entering "of=/dev/sdb" I accidentally entered sda which is the lapops internal hard drive :(

I noticed the mistake within seconds & closed the terminal window and since the filesystem appeared to be mounted I assumed that it wasn't avble to do any harm since it shouldn't have had write access to the partiotion manager. I was shocked when I restarted later to see that the Ubuntu live boot & installer image (1gb) now replaced my Xubuntu installation and roughly 100 Dark Coins, and this was 1-2 weeks ago when the price reachged $3. I hgave not booted the laptop since in order to preserve tbe HD contents the only partition is the live image abd 900gb+ of free space. I tried to use "encryptfs-utils" to run "mount-private-directory" and priuve0-volume but nothing was found as I expected as the original boot loader and parition map is gone I believe.

Somewhere in there are the encrypted contents of my darkcoin-qt wallet, if there were some way to reverse the partition map I kbnow the password and would be able to use encryptfs-tools to manually mount the encrypted volume;. Does anyone know of any software that is specifically designed or used to recover this data?


Is there any other alternate way to recover those coins? If I spent a bit of time searching I would be able to find the two or three addresse that were used and I know the wallet password. Are there any tools similar to bitcoin's brainwallet that could be used to do the conversions between passwords, address, pub/private keys and finally having all of them be able to restore my wallet & coins or am I just SOL?
 
I'm not 100% sure you actually need the wallet.dat file. (but I could be wrong... don't get your hopes up too much, yet)

Was the wallet encrypted?

Do you not have any backups? No rsyncs? Timemachine backups? dropbox processes?

Take a look at http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/21kdxf/how_to_import_private_key_into_qt/

I'd do this...
1) On a different computer, open up DarkCoin-QT
2) follow instructions from reddit post (Jaroco)
go to help, debug, console, and type importprivkey "your key"
3) see if your balance shows up

Let us know how it goes.
 
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