To Repair corrupt BKF file after system corruption

To have storage capacity is tremendous gift for us by advanced technology. Hard disks have become requirement for users who needs storage space of more than 1 TB. As well as external storage devices also come in extensive use to save data. Having so much space at our disposal, you need to be more vigilant to safeguard data against various threats. For this Window avails you a option NT Backup, a backup utility in Windows NT(XP, 2000, 2003) systems. All the data are backed up as BKF files in NT Backup. On the other hand, Sometimes BKF files get corrupt. It may be due to abrupt system crash, missing catalog files, CRC errors. To get out of these situations, you must use a third-party BKF repair application to repair corrupted BKF file.

To illustrate the above situation, let's take a scenario where you are trying to add data in incremental mode in BKF file while an abrupt system shutdown. When power is on, you try to open the BKF file but you are unable doing so.

Cause:
Back up file doesn't open due to data corruption. Corruption of BKF file occurs due to sudden system shutdown while data backup was in process. Due to corruption in backup file, it cant be restored again results in data inaccessibility.

Resolution:
Primarily to create backup for the data available with you, you need to execute the NTBackup utility to create a fresh backup. Windows doesn't have the option to repair BKF file. So once you crated fresh backup, you must opt for a third party BKF repair tool for the recovery of corrupted data. These tools use such algorithm which repairs BKF file in quick and rigorous manner and scans the damaged area successfully to repair BKF file.

Stellar BKF repair software enables you to repair BKF file created in Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server. It also enables you to perform BKF recovery from the files created in Backup Exec software from Veritas, or Symantec. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, 2003 Server, XP, and 2000. In addition, it provides you with an option to Live Update your existing version with the latest version.

Backup File Corrupt: due to ASR Restore Procedure Failure

Microsoft has always striven to satisfy its customers with innovative and user friendly technology. In tune with same, Window XP and Microsoft Windows adheres a feature called Automated System Recovery(ASR) that can be used to simplify recovery of computer's systems. ASR is an expended version of restore tool in window XP, which backs up data required for restoring the system configuration, not user-contributed data or files. While dealing with ASR user must ensure that boot volumes or system don't occupy backup files. Ignorance this can cause serious consequences and corruption in backup files. In such situations, when there is no option left except using a third party BKF repair tool.

To illustrate the above, let's take a scenario wherein you create a BKF file while executing ASR procedure to store all essential data for further restoration requirements. You select the primary drive C, as destination drive to store backup file.

After this, due to any malfunction or file deletion event, you run ASR restore procedure in order to restore the data from BKF file. But you receive an error message that backup file is corrupt and process can't be proceeded.

Cause
Windows backup file itself is corrupted. As discussed above, this unexpected event occurs because, you chose boot volumes or system for backup file, which was partitioned during ASR procedure. Repartitioning the system and boot volume results in backup file corruption which ultimately results in failure of ASR restore procedure.

Solution
Not to let this situation occur, BKF file should not be stored on a system or boot drive before running ASR restore procedure.

To extract data from a corrupt BKF file, you can use third party BKF repair tool which is created by Window backup utility to restore the contents at user-specified location. This Ms backup repair doesn't require high sounded technical knowledge.

Stellar BKF Repair is one of the most efficient utility designed to repair corrupt BKF file and restore their data at user-specified location. This BKF Repair Tool ensures integrity of the original file and supports backup files created with Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 backup utilities and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

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