Bitcoint-qt wallet removed from windows. What should I do now?

[littleannette]

My younger brother deleted bitcoin-qt wallet from windows and that big file with all the keys... he needed more space on the hard disc. I know only the address of my wallet. Did I lost my bitcoins? How to restore it? 

[torusJKL]

My younger brother deleted bitcoin-qt wallet from windows and that big file with all the keys... he needed more space on the hard disc. I know only the address of my wallet. Did I lost my bitcoins? How to restore it?  

The private keys are in a small file called wallet.dat. It is located under "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin"

If you still have that file then all is well.
If not then I'm sorry but the Bitcoins are gone.

[Anillos2]

If not then I'm sorry but the Bitcoins are gone.

You can scan the hard disc and search deleted files.

[littleannette]

Oh my god I can't find it, so he must have deleted it...

[silicont]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm

Good luck

[Dealazer]

find a decent undelete program, if it's wiped no meaning in the other hand that space was filled with space, and like 250gb harddrive was filled with 250gb of movies, and space was left zero, then it's probably wiped, but try using decent undelete program for this task.

[littleannette]

I think this is deleted permanently because he has already installed new games. My hard disc is almost full now - 497/500 GB

[voteformeg]

I think this is deleted permanently because he has already installed new games. My hard disc is almost full now - 497/500 GB

go to starticon (windows icon on the left) go to search and type    %appdata%    then search and dubbelclick on roaming there is your

wallet.dat file  , i hope for you

[wasserman99]

so sorry to hear this! always keep backups of your wallets!

[littleannette]

I think this is deleted permanently because he has already installed new games. My hard disc is almost full now - 497/500 GB

go to starticon (windows icon on the left) go to search and type    %appdata%    then search and dubbelclick on roaming there is your

wallet.dat file  , i hope for you

I can't find it there

so sorry to hear this! always keep backups of your wallets!

It's my brother fault. If he won't get christmas present from me, he'll remember to not touch my files

[Dealazer]

ty using some sort of undelete program, just search google for best undelete program and use it at location where the wallet.dat file apparently should had been.

[Geotima]

As the pc is almost full, the space has very likely been overwritten already.
I guess your bitcoin is lost. Next time, don't forget about backing it up.

[taturii]

you can try the following if you are using windows 7 ( I don't know if older versions support this):

- open a command-line window and type: explorer %appdata% (a window showing the Roaming directory will appear)
- go to the parent directory 'AppData' and right-click on it.
- go to the older versions tab in Properties and check if you can restore an old version of the folder.

[faiza1990]

you can try the following if you are using windows 7 ( I don't know if older versions support this):

- open a command-line window and type: explorer %appdata% (a window showing the Roaming directory will appear)
- go to the parent directory 'AppData' and right-click on it.
- go to the older versions tab in Properties and check if you can restore an old version of the folder.

its very helpful I also lost my wallet during reinstalling windows but now I have recover all my wallet and looking for recovering coins