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Recover btc old pc - Unistalled Client back in 2010
by
rosnick92
on 29/07/2022, 15:23:58 UTC
Hello everyone, I found my old pc I used to mine bitcoin around 2009/2010. I already read several topics about the way to try to recover the wallet but I'm having issues.

Specifically for one detail: after a few days of mining, noticing that the profit was few pennies per day (lol), I gave up on the idea and unistalled the client (I think).
After the unistall process, the pc was being used i'd say for another couple years (might be useful to know for the search of deleted files).


Since back then i was using both this pc but also my dad's laptops, and since it was more than 10 years ago, I'm just going by memory. Here's all I know:


- I mined btc for a few days and i was making few pennies per day.
- I think i unistalled the client due to the size of the blockchain you had to download to run the client.
- I didnt do any backup
- I have no bitcoin folder in the appdata folder

Unistalling the bitcoin client (which means i have no bitcoin folder inside appdata folder) makes the whole recovery process impossible?
Is there any way to check if the bitcoin client was indeed installed on any of the hd I have (both pc and laptops)? So i can narrow the research to the one hd that matters(I checked in all hard drives inside the appdata folder)?

I found and tried the keyhunter phython script but it gives me syntax error (windows 10 python 3 and i also tried with python 2.7.3)

I tried hexworkshop and searched for the "magic bytes" but couldnt find anything.

Please I need some answers so at least i can let this whole thing go for good.