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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Recover btc old pc - Unistalled Client back in 2010
by
NeuroticFish
on 29/07/2022, 21:06:31 UTC
Unistalling the bitcoin client (which means i have no bitcoin folder inside appdata folder) makes the whole recovery process impossible?

No. But the fact you've used that PC for so many years can easily mean that the removed data was also overwritten, hence it has become unrecoverable forever.

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

In theory, if the disk was re-partitioned (for example for fresh Win10), there may be areas now used by other partitions, for example, that could have useful data. But I am not a specialist and I may be wrong (and scammers can pretend to be specialists and give you false hopes in order to try to scam you, so be overly careful and keep your expectations low).