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Recently I have reinstalled Bitcoin qt because my HDD crashed. Fortunately I had a backup of my wallet.dat, but there is still one problem.

After the installation I replaced the wallet.dat with my old wallet.dat. If I start Bitcoin qt now, I can not see any money in my wallet?!

What can I do now?

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    Have you tried running bitcoin-qt -rescan?
    – Nate Eldredge
    Commented Oct 8, 2013 at 18:32
  • Yes, also tried this. It didn't work.
    – E765jf82hM966fb1sos0U966
    Commented Oct 8, 2013 at 19:11
  • Do any transactions show at all? If not, you probably didn't have a good backup.
    – Stephen Gornick
    Commented Oct 8, 2013 at 22:58
  • How recent was your backup? Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind uses a keypool, and thus you need to make new backups after a certain number of transactions.
    – Stephen Gornick
    Commented Oct 8, 2013 at 22:58
  • I even can't see any transactions listed in my client. Bitcoin-qt looks like if I have started it the first time. I am sure the backup includes the latest transactions, I just created it some days before the crash happened.
    – E765jf82hM966fb1sos0U966
    Commented Oct 9, 2013 at 11:37

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Are you also sure that you've let Bitcoin qt fully synchronise with the network? Very recently I moved across my wallet.dat to a new installation with no issues.

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  • I am 100 percent sure, I really don't know what's the problem. It's a pity that I have lost my Bitcoins now.
    – E765jf82hM966fb1sos0U966
    Commented Oct 9, 2013 at 11:29
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    I'm quite unsure then. Why don't you enable debugging and take a look at debug.log. Maybe it'll tell you where it's going wrong and if it's failing to load wallet.dat.
    – Bittylicious
    Commented Oct 9, 2013 at 13:38
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Check your wallet address against blockchain.info. verify there are no erroneous transactions / that your using theright wallet.dat file

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