Re: Windows Backup Files Recovery

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I chose the first in your list, My Backup for BKF file, and it worked.
Thanks a lot for saving me!! The program was available as a demo
download which would attempt recovery of the corrupt backup file and
provide a directory of the files it thought it could recover. If you
then wanted the recovery, you purchase the program for about $150 and
get your files back.

As it turns out, all except for the first 3 files in the backup set were
recoverable. No idea why the backup set started out bad, but so very
thankful you found these options.

-Landy

In article <09E2084C-D2E2-4B53-9A7E-C33570C974D0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jlm <jlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Try copying the file to another drive and then try restoring. Too, you may
> want to try using sharware or third party program to try repairing the files.
> Below are a few I found on the web:
>
> Repair My Backup for BKF files 2.28 (Shareware)
> http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Repair-My-Backup-for-
> BKF-files.shtml
>
> MSBackupRecovery 1.5
> http://www.officerecovery.com/msbackup/
>
> Bkfrecovery 2.0
> http://www.e-tech.ca/012-BKFrecovery.asp
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> "Atkinson" wrote:
>
> > In article <1loo91hbofn22jd9grvrnh4f7ansa9btul@xxxxxxx>,
> > Jerold Schulman <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 30 May 2005 03:08:05 GMT, Landy Atkinson
> > > <atkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >I used the Windows 2000 Backup program to create a backup of my My
> > > >Documents folder to a newtork drive. I now want to restore some files
> > > >from the backup, but when I go to the Restore tab and then Tools menu,
> > > >select Catalog a backup, I get an error message that the backup file is
> > > >an unrecognized type.
> > > >
> > > >Is there any "recovery" software (something akin to CHKDSK) that will
> > > >try to "fix" a backup file that has some sort of problem? The entire
> > > >backup file is about the size I expected, so it looks like Backup ran
> > > >and did most of what it was supposed to do. Maybe the file didn't get
> > > >closed properly. It is on a RAID1 drive the is not reporting errors, so
> > > >bad media is unlikely.
> > > >
> > > >Any ideas how to recover files from this backup set will be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >-Landy
> > >
> > >
> > > If the backup file does not have a .bkf extension, rename with a .bkf
> > > extension.
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, that is not the problem. It already had the .bkf
> > extension. I used the wrong word in my original post. The error
> > message says it is an unrecognized "format", not "type". I am hoping
> > that the unrecognized format message means that either the file header
> > has an error or the file didn't get closed properly. Both of these
> > condiditions should be repairable by a program that understands the
> > Windows Backup file format.
> >
.

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