<h2>non-HD WO to HD WO</h2>
<p>It seems Electrum supports both deterministic (HD) and non-deterministic watch-only wallets but you can't <em>simply</em> convert from one type of watch-only wallet to the other type of watch-only wallet.</p>
<p>You can create a new HD wallet and manually import into it the addresses from the old non-HD watch-only wallet. I'm not sure there is any reason to do this.</p>
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<h2>WO to spendable</h2>
<p>If you want to convert a watch-only wallet to one that can spend the money watched by the watch-only wallet, you can't do that without additional data that isn't in the watch-only wallet (private keys).</p>
<p>It may help to read the description of Electrum Watch-only wallets at <a href="https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-watch-only-wallet/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-watch-only-wallet/</a></p>
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<p>A watch-only wallet is a wallet without any secrets in it that could be used to spend bitcoin.</p>
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<p>If you have the private keys that are omitted from a watch-only wallet, you can import them into a new wallet following the guide at <a href="https://bitcoinelectrum.com/importing-your-private-keys-into-electrum/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoinelectrum.com/importing-your-private-keys-into-electrum/</a></p>

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<p>Hello everyone I have an electrum wallet and it's in just watch mode and I'd like to change it to an HD wallet in electrum. How to go about it if it's possible?</p>

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How to turn a just watch electrum wallet to HD
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# How to turn a just watch electrum wallet to HD

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-05-13)

Hello everyone I have an electrum wallet and it's in just watch mode and I'd like to change it to an HD wallet in electrum. How to go about it if it's possible?

**Tags:** wallet, electrum, watch-only


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### Answer by username_1 on 2024-05-13. Score: 0

## non-HD WO to HD WO

It seems Electrum supports both deterministic (HD) and non-deterministic watch-only wallets but you can't *simply* convert from one type of watch-only wallet to the other type of watch-only wallet.

You can create a new HD wallet and manually import into it the addresses from the old non-HD watch-only wallet. I'm not sure there is any reason to do this.

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## WO to spendable

If you want to convert a watch-only wallet to one that can spend the money watched by the watch-only wallet, you can't do that without additional data that isn't in the watch-only wallet (private keys).

It may help to read the description of Electrum Watch-only wallets at <https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-watch-only-wallet/>

> A watch-only wallet is a wallet without any secrets in it that could be used to spend bitcoin.

If you have the private keys that are omitted from a watch-only wallet, you can import them into a new wallet following the guide at <https://bitcoinelectrum.com/importing-your-private-keys-into-electrum/>


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