Help in retrieving btc

[bitcoinTrader]

Hi,

I have btc stored on my mac laptop, but it has crashed.
I am going to get the HDD converted to external disk and connect to my windows laptop.

I will install the bitcoin client on windows.

Do I need to just replace the wallet.dat file from the mac retrieved data?

The bitcoin client installed on mac was 0.3.x

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[Raoul Duke]

Replace the wallet.dat and run your client with the -rescan flag so it retrieves all of your wallet's transactions from the blockchain. That's all you need.

[Pieter Wuille]

-rescan is actually only necessary if the old client was older than 0.3.21.

[Raoul Duke]

-rescan is actually only necessary if the old client was older than 0.3.21.

Good to know. Thanks.

[bitcoinTrader]

Thanks for replies.

Can you provide the exact command to execute from command line?

[Pieter Wuille]

Which OS? What was the exact version you were using before (before or after 0.3.21)?

[bitcoinTrader]

Previous OS was mac snow leopard osx 10.6
New OS windows 7

I dont remember the exact version, might be 0.3.21 or 0.3.23
Is there any way to find it from log files?