Find Where Your Seed Phrase Was Stored — Before You Give Up
BIP-39 Recovery Tool is a Windows application that scans files
and raw disk sectors for BIP39 seed words. If your seed phrase was ever written
to a drive — in a text file, a notes app, a browser export, a wallet backup, or
anywhere else — the bytes are still on that drive somewhere, even if the file
was deleted. This tool finds them.
It does one thing and does it well: systematically narrows a 1TB drive down to a
short list of files and disk sectors worth a human look, in a fraction of the
time it would take to open hundreds of files manually.
What It Scans
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Files and directories — scans .txt, .ini, and text-like
files recursively through any folder; copies matched files to your output
directory with a CSV report -
Raw disk sectors — reads every byte of a drive using the
Windows raw device API, including unallocated space and space from deleted
files; produces a block-by-block progress grid and saves partial results if
you stop early
What It Does Not Do
- Does not brute-force or guess missing words
- Does not connect to any blockchain or network
- Does not recover wallets directly
- Does not guarantee you’ll find anything — recovery depends on whether the
data is still present on your drive
The BIP39 wordlist is plain English. Expect false positives — ordinary text
files will match several words. A genuine seed phrase will stand out as a
sequence of unrelated short words with no sentence structure around them. The
tool narrows the search down; you do the final verification.
Raw Disk Scanning — How It Works
The tool reads every sector on a drive in 1MB blocks using the Windows
CreateFileW/ReadFile API against the physical device
path. This finds data that has been deleted, emptied from the Recycle Bin, or
that was never in a file at all. It requires Administrator privileges and is
blocked by design from running on C:/ to avoid an unusable flood of false
positives from system files.
On SSDs, recovery may not be possible depending on TRIM and wear-leveling
behavior. On spinning hard drives, recovery is more likely if the drive has not
been heavily used since deletion.
Privacy
- No telemetry — the application does not collect, log, or transmit file
paths, scan results, or any content from your drive - All scanning is local — nothing from your files or disk is sent anywhere
- The only outbound connection is license activation: key + machine ID
- For maximum safety, activate your license while connected, then disconnect
from the internet before scanning
Why No Code Signing Certificate?
The binary is not signed with a commercial certificate. Windows SmartScreen will
show a warning — click “More info” then “Run
anyway”. If you’re not comfortable with that, the full source is
published on GitHub and the build process is straightforward. Building from
source gives you a binary you compiled yourself from code you can read.
SHA-256 checksums are published with every release. Verify before running.
For this audience, open source + offline + local-only + published checksum is a
stronger trust signal than a cert from a vendor you’ve never heard of.
System Requirements
- Windows 10 (1809 or later) or Windows 11
- 4GB RAM minimum
- Administrator rights for raw disk scanning (file scanning does not require
this) - No external dependencies — Qt runtime is bundled
Licensing
$49 — one-time purchase. No subscription, no recurring fees. A
license key is tied to your machine and validated at startup. All scanning is
done locally — your files and scan results never leave your machine.
There is no trial period. If the phrase is not on the drive you scan, the tool
cannot find it — that is a function of what’s on your drive, not the tool. Read
the false positives and SSD notes above before purchasing.
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Source on GitHub |
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