Ntbackup

[Guest]

Hello

I installed the NTbackup.exe from my Windows Home XP cd-rom , well it
seems to have worked alright but i cannot open the backup.bkf file. Is this
normal? Can i still restore using it?
help me if you can
thanks
larry
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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello

I installed the NTbackup.exe from my Windows Home XP cd-rom , well it
seems to have worked alright but i cannot open the backup.bkf file. Is this
normal? Can i still restore using it?
help me if you can
thanks
larry
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Aspire X-Superalien 500W
Asus P4c800E Deluxe
Intel P-4 800 3.0G 1mb cache
Crucial 2x 512MB DDR400
2x WD 80GB Sata 150 7200rpm 8M
Ati Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Audigy 2ZS
Windows XP , home

You write "i cannot open the backup.bkf file." but you don't tell
us what happens when you try. Unless you do, we cannot help you!

 

[Guest]

Pegasus

Thanks for your reply. When i try to open the backup.bfk file i get
Windows cannot open this file but i tried notepad and wordpad any way but
would not open.
When i use the web service to find the program to open file i get:

-- Windows has the following information about this file type. This page
will help you find software needed to open your file.



File Type: Unknown

Description: Windows does not recognize this file type.

The following Web site has a comprehensive list of file extensions. You
might be able to find information about this file type there:
Windows Live Search

When i click Windows Live Search theres over 2,000 pages to read , so i
guess i will have to get back to you thats a lot of pages to read.
Thanks again
larry

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Windows XP , home

 

[Rock]

Hello

I installed the NTbackup.exe from my Windows Home XP cd-rom , well it
seems to have worked alright but i cannot open the backup.bkf file. Is
this
normal? Can i still restore using it?
help me if you can

Have you tested if you can restore from it? Any backup solution should be
tested. What do you mean you cannot open the file?

 

[Rock]

Pegasus

Thanks for your reply. When i try to open the backup.bfk file i get
Windows cannot open this file but i tried notepad and wordpad any way but
would not open.
When i use the web service to find the program to open file i get:

-- Windows has the following information about this file type. This page
will help you find software needed to open your file.

File Type: Unknown

Description: Windows does not recognize this file type.

The following Web site has a comprehensive list of file extensions. You
might be able to find information about this file type there:
Windows Live Search

When i click Windows Live Search theres over 2,000 pages to read , so i
guess i will have to get back to you thats a lot of pages to read.

You don't open a backup file in another program to use it. You restore from
it using ntbackup.

 

[Guest]

Rock

I appreciate you spending the time to help me , when i double click other
files or folders on my desktop they will open and i can read whats inside but
this .bkf file will not open so i can see if it has all the backup stuff in
it. Well i am going to find another way to backup.
thanks again
larry
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Aspire X-Superalien 500W
Asus P4c800E Deluxe
Intel P-4 800 3.0G 1mb cache
Crucial 2x 512MB DDR400
2x WD 80GB Sata 150 7200rpm 8M
Ati Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Audigy 2ZS
Windows XP , home

 

[Rock]

Rock

I appreciate you spending the time to help me , when i double click
other
files or folders on my desktop they will open and i can read whats inside
but
this .bkf file will not open so i can see if it has all the backup stuff
in
it. Well i am going to find another way to backup.
thanks again

To see the contents of the file, run ntbackup, and click on restore. Then
load the backup file to browse it. That's how backups normally work. The
files are not readable except through the program, so what you are seeing is
normal.

That said I don't use ntbackup for a variety of reasons. Some time ago I
went to drive imaging, saving compressed images of the drives to alternating
external hard drives connected through USB. Originally I used PowerQuest's
Drive Image. They were bought out some time ago by Symantec and the
technology incorporated into Ghost, though I have never used the Symantec
offering.

DI works fine in XP but will not work in Vista. So when I moved to Vista I
changed to Acronis True Image Home version 10. It will do imaging on a
drive and partition basis, drive cloning, and file backup. Images can be
full, differential or incremental, cutting down on subsequent backup times.
Images can be mounted as virtual drives so individual files/folders can be
restored. The images must be viewed within Acronis though, same issue you
have now, but I don't see why you consider that problematic.

EIDE drives are low cost, as are external drive enclosures. These coupled
with ATI provide a very robust and relatively low cost backup solution.

 

[Guest]

Rock

thanks for your reply. i sure do appreciate your help , i dont think i
need to back up anything anyway . i was going to back up what i could like
directx , video drivers and so on because i dont know what i will need after
putting new xp in.
thanks again
larry
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Crucial 2x 512MB DDR400
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Audigy 2ZS
Windows XP , home

 

[Rock]

Rock

thanks for your reply. i sure do appreciate your help , i dont think i
need to back up anything anyway . i was going to back up what i could like
directx , video drivers and so on because i dont know what i will need
after
putting new xp in.

You're welcome though this latest post seems to be a non sequiter. You
asked about viewing ntbackup files and now you say something about not
wanting to backup except for drivers and directx. In any event you can't
backup drivers from an installed OS and use them in a new installation.
Drivers need to be installed clean. Same with directX.