How to Restore Data from Inaccessible BKF File using MS Backup Recovery Tool?

Every organizations possess large amount of data stored in their servers or systems. In order to protect data from accidental loss or disaster, all the organizations maintain a regular backup copy of their data. Mostly the backup are created in BKF format from Windows NT systems. In certain situation the backed up data may be inaccessible. This can happen due to data corruption or any physical damage to the backups. Some of the common error messages are listed below

Common Error Messages that appears while Restoring Corrupted BKF Files

• The fixed media is full and cannot back up to this disk device
  
• Insert media for backing up
  
• An inconsistency was encountered in the requested BKF file
  
• CRC error failed to restore data from file
  
• These BKF Files are Unusable
  
• Undetectable Media
  
• Error 11d e000fe36- Corrupt data encountered in the media
  
  

Situations That Leads To Inaccessibility of BKF Files

Certain situations that lead to BKF files are described below.

·      Virus attack may lead to BKF corruption and its inaccessibility. This is one of the common situation most of the users face.
·         Any actions that interrupt the backing up process leads to incomplete backup process and this leads to BKF corruption.
·         Error detection in Cyclic Redundancy Check leads to data loss from the Windows NT backups.
·         Unexpected system shutdown during back up process leads to incompletion of the backups and there by data loss.
·         Any intentional activities by an intruder can cause data corruption there by corrupting the BKF files.
·         Missing or corruption of catalog files leads to inaccessibility of contents from Windows Backups.

Restoring BKF Files in Windows 10/8.1/8/Vista/7

Direct restoring of BKF files to Windows 10/8.1/8/Vista/7 PCs are not possible. The NT Backups created from windows XP is not compatible with the later versions of Windows OS. In order to BKF file to these PCs user should possess three unities namely ntbackup.exe, ntmsapi.dll and vssapi.dll. User can either download from internet or copy these files from a Windows XP PC.

These BKF restoring is only possible only if the BKF files are in healthy condition and contents are accessible. This will prompt error messages while trying to restore the corrupted BKF files. These utilities may not help users to restore BKF files in very situations. So always use a smart solution that restores the BKF files in all scenarios.

Third Party Solution- BKF Recovery Software

In certain situation third party solutions provide best output. Some in order to restore BKF files use BKF Recovery Software. This is an excellent tool to recover contents from BKF files. This helps users to restore any type of corrupted or inaccessible BKF files. This helps user to restore BKF files in Windows 10/8.1/8/Vista/7. The recovery tool can even recover back the deleted data from the backups.

Source - http://www.msbackuprecovery.bkfrepairtool.com