@wellenreiter said in Hard Drive Failure. Wallet question.:

With Wallet Id you mean the Feathercoin address of the wallet?
That doesn’t help.
What you need is a backup of your private keys.
You can get that backup in several ways:

• backup your ~/.feathercoin/wallet.dat file (linux) of your %appdata%\feathercoin\wallet.dat file (windows)
• trigger a backup from the wallet gui. This option is dependent on the version of the wallet and not always available.
• open a command window from the wallet’s debug menu and type
  ‘exportprivatekey <your wallet address>’ and copy paste/write down the string that is returned. repeat this step for every address of the wallet.

Well, guess Im screwed then. At least it was on my home PC running a month long test on one card. And not something more serious. Thank you for the assistance Wellen.

@wellenreiter said in Hard Drive Failure. Wallet question.:

@clickinorka

Do you have a backup of your wallet.dat or noted your private keys somewhere?

If yes, no harm is done to the wallet and your coins.
If no your coins are lost.

I have the original wallet ID still on the feathercoin mining pool. I’ve only just reinstalled almost everything, and saved the wallet to something other than my main drive. I will be backing the wallet up frequently this time.

I lost my SSD on Friday, wallet and all. Is everything there permanently gone? If so, luckily it wasn’t much as I was only testing mining running on my home PC on one card. Still made roughly 1USD per day it seemed. Reinstalled the wallet, don’t currently see where I could put in my old info. Assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Would like to know if anyone knows the best site to use, or, ones that support transferring to Canadian financial institutions.

Could anyone tell me why the 580s are so sought after (besides price) comparatively to the ProDuo cards as they seem to have 2-3x the power of the 580s.

Would 19 of them not vastly out perform 19 580s on the B250 mining rig?

@wellenreiter Thanks Well. I searched around trying to reduce the difficulty, there doesn’t seem to be a modification setting in the workers config MyAccount>MyWorkers. I switched up the connectivity to port 3028 so the difficulty is lessened but there didn’t seem to be a change. Its all good, for now Ill stick with things on the GPU side I guess til I learn more.

@wellenreiter Thanks Well. It all goes well now aside from the CPU part. Been a good 3-4 days and I can’t make it more than a mere few, like the pic posted above. Is there a special address I should be connecting to for the CPU side? The CPU worker doesn’t appear most of the time, and when it does, its up for a moment and is gone again. Seems to be 99% ignored. So it does do its thing, just doesn’t seem that credit is being given for the effort. CPU miner is 2.4.3.

@wellenreiter Thanks Well. I created a new worker profile and basically copied the info from the .bat file you guys had me create to start CCMiner. Changed the info to the new worker.

minerd.exe -a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool.feathercoin.com:6056 -u ClickinOrka.xxxxxx -p xxxxxxxxxxxx

Took a short while but they worker did appear on my “dashboard” for a brief moment. However with 6 cores, it only appeared to provide 36kh/s across all 12 threads. That can’t be right???

I’d like to think I can muddle though, read previous Q&A’s and learn without bugging all yall, but I’d also like to get it right and not half ass it. Please let me know if I made a mistake. I’d have thought that a hexcore processor would do more then 1 video card.

@wellenreiter Hey Well, thanks for recommending CPUMiner. I looked though the “README” and went to the forums for Q&A. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0 there in it states a “minerd.exe” to which the archive doesn’t have that file. The post was made in 2011, so its not a shock that the file may not longer exist in a new build. It does have a “minerd.1” file. In short, I have no bloody clue how to make this work either.

@tobi97l Thanks Tobi that makes alot of sense. I am getting a solid 800Kh/s. I’ve been using CCMiner since I started, that’s running my GPU in the command window posted two replies above.