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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: VA_Dave on March 25, 2014, 10:12:21 PM



Title: accessing bitcoin-qt wallet on non functioning computer?
Post by: VA_Dave on March 25, 2014, 10:12:21 PM
I have an old winXP computer with a bitcoin-QT wallet.
This computer has crashed and WinXP repair seems to hung up.

Is there any way to transfer some bitcoin-QT files to another similar
computer so that I can access the contents of the wallet?

Or any other solutions?

TIA

Dave


Title: Re: accessing bitcoin-qt wallet on non functioning computer?
Post by: cp1 on March 25, 2014, 10:15:30 PM
Stick the hard drive in a working computer and copy off the wallet.dat file, it's all you need.  Install bitcoin-qt to the functioning computer and replace your old wallet.dat then rescan.