Wallet.dat corrupted

[Duckie]

Was a brand new address transfer some bitcoins in it and the next day I got a message while trying to open it "wallet.dat corrupt, salvage failed" I've tried using pywallet and it just tells me "couldn't open wallet.dat/main. try quitting bitcoin and running this again." Tried restarting.

[jubalix]

good practice is to use pywallet and extract all private keys before placing anything in the wallet addresses.....regualr updates for change addresses