How do I copy a .bkf file if the regular restore utility does not

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Janice

I have several backups on an external hard drive. I am about to reformat my
pc and decided to test the backups I did regularly with the windows backup
utility. They do not work. I am getting error messages saying file contains
unrecognized data and cannot be used. When I click ok at that error, it comes
up with a dialog box to check file location. It says the backup file cannot
be found or is not the file requested. I saw a few posts that suggesting
just copying the entire .bkf file. How does one do that? The only way to
see that file is in the backup program. If I right click on the file, it
just says catalog or delete catalog. I can see all the files within each
backup but I cannot restore them. It's very frustrating as it would seem
that windows would have been able to perfect their backup system by now. I
have installed carbonite on all my pc's now. But I would really like to get
this reformatting going and the carbonite is going to take a while to
complete. Thanks in advance.
 
P

philo

Janice said:
I have several backups on an external hard drive. I am about to reformat my
pc and decided to test the backups I did regularly with the windows backup
utility. They do not work. I am getting error messages saying file contains
unrecognized data and cannot be used. When I click ok at that error, it comes
up with a dialog box to check file location. It says the backup file cannot
be found or is not the file requested. I saw a few posts that suggesting
just copying the entire .bkf file. How does one do that? The only way to
see that file is in the backup program. If I right click on the file, it
just says catalog or delete catalog. I can see all the files within each
backup but I cannot restore them. It's very frustrating as it would seem
that windows would have been able to perfect their backup system by now. I
have installed carbonite on all my pc's now. But I would really like to get
this reformatting going and the carbonite is going to take a while to
complete. Thanks in advance.


Not likely MS is ever going to come up with a good backup ...
use some 3rd party backup software
 

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