Quote from: derpcoin on January 16, 2014, 04:38:13 PM

Hi I setup a cold wallet a few months back and saved it on a usb stick. Now I have reinstalled the bitcoin client on my pc and copied over the saved wallet, but when I start the bitcoin client it says wallet.dat is corrupt salvage failed.

I have installed pywallet on my win8 pc and some other dependencies. I ran the command pywallet.py --dumpwallet and I get a error try quitting bitcoin and running this again(bitcoin is was closed when I tried this).

Does anyone know another way to recover this wallet, I did also try to drag it into blockchain to see it it would recover it but it also gave some error "Unexpected end of file from server".

There is not a lot of btc on the wallet but I would still like to recover it if it is possible.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=130960 seems to do this. There are several recovery services out there.

Also phot-rec may have added support to recover .dat files.