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If you are using Bitcoin Core 0.17 or later and have a non‑HD wallet, you can use the -upgradewallet option to upgrade it to an HD (hierarchical deterministic) wallet. This option automatically generates a new seed and keypool while retaining all old private keys and transactions.

Remember the two most important rules:

If you encrypted your wallet and forgot the passphrase, there is no backdoor. Your only hope is to use brute‑force recovery tools like hashcat (after converting the wallet with bitcoin2john.py ). This is time‑consuming and may not be feasible for strong passwords. bitcoin core walletdat upd

Some versions provide a "Migrate Wallet" option in the menu. If you are using Bitcoin Core 0