Corrupted / fragmented wallet.dat

Berkeley DB salvage pipeline followed by pywallet key extraction. Works even when db_verify fails.

Source & output

Corrupted wallet.dat

Output directory

Pipeline

Verify Berkeley DB integrity

db_verify /path/to/corrupted/wallet.dat

Aggressive salvage dump

db_dump -r /path/to/corrupted/wallet.dat

Rebuild clean wallet.dat

db_load ~/Recovered/wallet/wallet.dat

Extract keys with pywallet

python2 pywallet.py --dumpwallet --datadir ~/Recovered/wallet