I am paying a professional company to do a raw recovery on my hard drive. Question what exactly is needed to recover my bitcoins from bitcoin core? wallet.dat file only?
Yes, from Bitcoin Core, the wallet.dat file is everything... If you have that, it is generally a simple matter of reinstalling Bitcoin Core, running it once so that it sets up a wallet.dat... shutting it down and replacing the new wallet.dat with your recovered wallet.dat. Start Core up and all your addresses should be available. NOTE: unless the new instance of Bitcoin Core is sync'd, you may not see the transaction history or correct balance (but you can still access private keys/addresses etc).Obviously, you'll also need to know the passphrase (if any) for your recovered wallet.dat file to be able to access the private keys and/or spend coins
