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Re: Recover btc old pc - Unistalled Client back in 2010
by
rosnick92
on 13/08/2022, 13:03:37 UTC
Or if there's any new file that the bitcoin client creates or overwritten file. Some trace left even after the unistall of the client?
Bitcoin Core's "data directory" wont be deleted even if the client was uninstalled, its default location is in %appdata%/bitcoin.
%appdata% in Windows is in "<Drive letter>:/Users/<Your_Username>/AppData/Roaming"
You need to enable 'hidden files' view to find the appdata folder.

Before giving-up, you might want to try the other tools.
But in my test, pywallet -recover can definitely recover keys from a deleted wallet.
That hd has windows xp installed so this is the directory i checked C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\Bitcoin but there was no bitcoin folder.

Isn't another way to check? I read online that I could use the eventlog to check events, but it stores up to a certain numbers of entries so it might be too far back in time. But even that, how should I use the eventlog to check on an external hard drive? Any idea?