<p>Since you added the Electrum tag to the question, I'll assume you're using Electrum.</p>

<p>When you first start up Electrum, you get the choice of creating a new seed or creating a wallet from an existing one. At that point you would select to enter your existing seed words, and it should recover your wallet.</p>

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<p>If I lost wallets on hard drive crash, how do I restore with just my wallet words? Restoring data from back up is not working</p>

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How to restore wallet from wallet words after hard drive crash with no back up?
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# How to restore wallet from wallet words after hard drive crash with no back up?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-04)

If I lost wallets on hard drive crash, how do I restore with just my wallet words? Restoring data from back up is not working

**Tags:** electrum, wallet-recovery


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-11-04. Score: 1

Since you added the Electrum tag to the question, I'll assume you're using Electrum.

When you first start up Electrum, you get the choice of creating a new seed or creating a wallet from an existing one. At that point you would select to enter your existing seed words, and it should recover your wallet.


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