Recover Your Locked Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

Yes, in many cases. Even with no password recollection at all, if you still have the wallet file, our tools can attempt recovery using techniques based on the Electrum encryption format. Having any partial information — even the approximate length or a few characters — significantly improves the probability of success. We provide an honest probability assessment before beginning work.

Sometimes. Electrum wallet files can become corrupted due to disk errors, incomplete writes, or OS failures. We can attempt to repair or reconstruct the wallet data depending on the type and extent of corruption. The key factor is whether the encrypted private key data is still intact within the file.

If you have your 12-word seed phrase, you do not need the password. Open Electrum, select "I already have a seed", enter your seed phrase, and create a new password. Your Bitcoin and transaction history will be restored. No recovery service is needed in this scenario.

Yes. Legacy Electrum wallet recovery — including very old wallet versions and the old seed format used before version 2.0 — is one of our specialisms. Older Electrum wallets use a different encryption format and seed phrase style, both of which we support.

On Windows, the default wallet is typically at %APPDATA%\Electrum\wallets\default_wallet. On macOS, at ~/.electrum/wallets/default_wallet. On Linux, at ~/.electrum/wallets/default_wallet. If you have a custom wallet name, check the same folder. For recovery, we need you to locate and securely share this file.