So confirming you have a couple of wallet.dat files? If so, then Bitcoin Core is an option... although you'll need to wait for it to sync, then swap the new wallet.dat file with your old wallet.dat.
There is also pywallet:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0That might help you extract the private keys etc
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Thank you HCP
I do not remember encrypting the wallets or BTCd when I ran it. I will check out pywallet and what it does because I am not familiar with it, I have been away from the crypto scene for some time.
Many month ago I replaced the old wallet.dat files with a syncd BTCd running on AWS but it did not recognise the wallets.
When you say Bitcoin Core is an option, do you mean to download the latest Bitcoin desktop wallet, wait for it to sync and then replace the new wallet with the backed up ones?