How do I recover my wallet?

[Moose33]

Hello,

4-5 years ago I set up a bitcoin account & deposited $$ onto it. Never used it (forgot about it). How do I recover my wallet? find my account? as it was an old computer.
I dont have any record of my wallet ID, but im sure I can find it through email confirmation?

Thanks for any advice

[NanaLelyakova]

There is no supported way to recover your wallet. The only way is to brute-force the password, this would indeed take an eternity if you have no clue what the password was. However if you a slight clue what the password was, the possiblities to brute-force it would drastically deminish, which might make it worth to try. There are tools/services which are able to do this for you, google

[bitkilo]

There is no supported way to recover your wallet. The only way is to brute-force the password, this would indeed take an eternity if you have no clue what the password was. However if you a slight clue what the password was, the possiblities to brute-force it would drastically deminish, which might make it worth to try. There are tools/services which are able to do this for you, google

This is not exactly true, most bitcoin wallets can be restored from the mnemonic phrase given to the user when setting up an account.

@OP, Do you have the 12 word phrase you should have been given when setting up your wallet (depending on what wallet)?
Do you know what the name of the wallet you had was?

[Hienrich]

Hello,

4-5 years ago I set up a bitcoin account & deposited $$ onto it. Never used it (forgot about it). How do I recover my wallet? find my account? as it was an old computer.
I dont have any record of my wallet ID, but im sure I can find it through email confirmation?

Thanks for any advice

If the wallet is an online wallet, like Coinbase, then you should be able to recover the password via email confirmations like you stated. When you are signing in, press the forgot password button and follow the instructions given. Some sites also offer a secret question. If you input the correct answer, then you can access the account.

For certain wallets like electrum, they provide you with a 12-word phrase which can be used to recover your wallet in case of any loss. You normally get this when you create your wallet in the beginning. It is called a wallet seed. Have you by a chance saved this seed onto something secure?