Restoring from old HDD without backup

[Hahn]

Hi Greymass,

First I want to extend my gratitude for all the things Greymass has done for EOS throughout the history.

My 5 years old WIndows 10 laptop had a battery explosion. The fire was extinguished right off the bat. Feeling so lucky that there was no casualty, no insury, no data loss. I just taken out the SDD and now I’m trying to import all the Anchor Wallet keysto a new laptop with Windows 11 with a fresh installment of Anchor. The thing is that I never backed up on the previous computer on Anchor.

Is there any way I can restore and import those in the old SDD to the new installment of Anchor Wallet on the new laptop without JSON backup file?

Please guide!

Regards,
Hahn

[aaron]

If you can access the old data, you should be able to pull all the data out. There’s a file called config.json that Anchor uses to store all your accounts/settings/etc, which on Windows is found in your User’s home folder.

Normally you can get to it by going Windows → Run, and then typing %APPDATA%, but that’s only for the current windows installation.

If you’re looking at this as a secondary hard drive you recovered from the old machine, you’ll want to look in the drive for the following folder structure:

X:\Users\<Your Username>\AppData\Roaming\Anchor Wallet

It may or may not be a hidden folder, so you may have to enable the explorer to show hidden folders.

Hope that helps!