Accidentally Lost My BTC Backup in 2022 — Just Recovered It in 2025

I have a pretty crazy story that happened to me last year lol.

Back in 2022, I had some BTC on my PC. My Windows was acting up, so I decided to format it. I had made a backup from Electrum and saved it on an SD card, but I wasn’t very experienced back then.

After formatting the PC, I reinstalled everything and tried to restore the wallet using the private keys and the 12-word seed… and I just couldn’t find them. I was frustrated and honestly pretty sad. I thought my BTC was gone forever.

A few years passed.

Around July or August 2025, I was bored and decided to clean up my SD card, deleting random junk files. In the middle of that, I found a folder with several private keys inside.

I started testing them one by one.

On the fifth key… when I saw the balance, I literally leaned back in my chair in shock. I even took a picture of the screen to capture the moment. The value had almost tripled since 2022.

It felt unreal.

Right after that, I created a brand-new wallet with a fresh seed, transferred everything there, and properly backed up the words this time.

I told a friend about it and he said it sounds like that story of the guy who threw away a hard drive with BTC on it — except in my case, I actually found mine