How to recover my XBY wallet after Windows reinstallation?

  1. XTRABYTES
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    XTRABYTES XTRABYTES
    November 23, 2017 at 02:19
    This was posted in XTRABYTES Slack channel, by member "samiboy1":

    Please some one should help me out. I reinstalled windows recently on my laptop and have lost all my xby. Although I backed up the wallet. But I don't know what to do to recover my coins.

    I also have my private key.
     
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    November 23, 2017 at 02:37
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  3. NikeNem
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    NikeNem NikeNem
    December 3, 2017 at 08:58
    Hello, Is this also working for the Xfuel wallet ? I don't see the wallet.dat for the xfuel wallet. How do we recover Xfuel Wallet ?
     
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    Yankee Ruin X Yankee Ruin X
    December 3, 2017 at 09:20
    It is the same but in the XFUEL folder instead of the XTRABYTES folder. Have you ran the XFUEL wallet to create the .dat file first?
     
  5. NikeNem
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    NikeNem NikeNem
    December 3, 2017 at 09:29
    I have already opened the Xfuel and receveid some xfuel but on my folder there is no wallet.dat, there is only the xfuel.exe. (I have the wallet v1.0.0.1-g ).
     
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    NikeNem NikeNem
    December 10, 2017 at 06:20
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    Andrew M Andrew M
    December 11, 2017 at 09:05
    Saving this just in case. Thank you
     
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    Silvercaveman Silvercaveman
    December 13, 2017 at 02:52
    I've had a terrible issue happen this week, the hard drive on my computer failed and needed replacing. I stupidly had not got the private key or done a backup.

    I managed to get the wallet copied across to new hard drive but it didn't have the wallet.dat file so wallet was empty.

    I just managed to recover wallet.dat file, is it still possible to access the xby in here through something like electrum or bitcoin core, even without private key?

    Or will I be forced to put this down as an expensive lesson?
     
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    Silvercaveman Silvercaveman
    December 14, 2017 at 11:03
    I've tried a few things without success so far, I've come across something called pywallet which might be useful to extract private keys from a wallet.dat file but I don't have the faintest idea how to use it...

    Also I thought possibly downloading the xtrabyte blockchain when it is publicly available could help get it back for me.

    I've got nearly 600k xby in there, any help would be greatly appreciated...