Going to format my PC - What to do ?

[fathur01]

Why not just make a paper wallet, send the coins there.

Format PC.

Reload paper wallet onto new client such as electrum.

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[Bit N Roll]

Best way to format your pc is go to a knowledgeable technician and let him do his job

I know how it works lol , I just don't know what is the thing that keep my bitcoin in the wallet

lol.. I also thought you were asking how to format your pc too.

[BallardVance]

Thanks for the question and answers. I'm also facing the same situation. 

[Argwai96]

So yeah I decided to format my PC I have Electrum wallet & I have about 0.1 BTC on it , what should I do to prevent losing bitcoins I'am really new at this (when I installed the wallet first time , it gave me some random words and asked me to keep them in case computer failure or something like that)

anyone with experience with Electrum can let me know what to do please ? thanks

From the looks of it, it appears that your question has been pretty well answered a couple of times.

I however would like to inquire as to why are you formatting your hard drive? If you are trying to protect your information on your HDD by formatting it, then you will likely be in for a bad surprise as this will not work. Most information (depending on the size of your HDD and how much data is on your HDD). A much better solution would be to use a program that securely erases certain files that you want erased

[mezmerizer9]

remember the seed and after formatting reinstall electrum then type the seed

This, but backup your wallet on your flash drive or a cd, just in case.

[pooya87]

So yeah I decided to format my PC I have Electrum wallet & I have about 0.1 BTC on it , what should I do to prevent losing bitcoins I'am really new at this (when I installed the wallet first time , it gave me some random words and asked me to keep them in case computer failure or something like that)

anyone with experience with Electrum can let me know what to do please ? thanks

all you need to restore your wallet is you seed.
look here:
https://electrum.org/tutorials.html#restoring-seed

an small suggestion: you can install a virtual machine like "virtualbox" then create a virtual windows/linux or whatever and try restoring your wallet there. it is fun and also the virtualbox will come in handy other places too. (IMO)

[Abdussamad]

Backing up the seed is important but you should also make a copy of the wallet file. The wallet file has additional things that the bare seed does not. For example labels for transactions and addresses. To backup the wallet choose 'save copy' from the 'file' menu.