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Since my initial post I've learned quite a bit more. Most importantly, the proper name for this is the "Microsoft Tape Format", MTF. There is a brief review article at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;104223 However the full MTF specification which used to be...

I've never worked with NTFS, but know a lot about the FAT32 file system, and at the level your system is messed up they are probably conceptually similar. Sorry if you know all this, but lets see. From what you say the directory is ok, ie still lists all your files, but the data in the files...

bjverzal's reply is on target. You also need to know (I'm sure you do) the operating system. Almost all programs make OS dependant calls. In a MS or X Windows environment there are often dynamically linked libraries that do a lot of the work. Without knowing these calling conventions you...

I am interested in the format of the *.bkf files produced by NTBackUp. I've made a first pass at this and can recover data from an uncompressed file. I'd be very interested if anyone has any hints or thoughts on the data compression algorithm which is used. If interested in what I've done so...

Greetings: I posted about a month ago. I've now helped a couple people recover *.qic files. My site for info on *.QIC format and data recovery has moved to http://www.fpns.net/willy/msbackup.htm Its still in Beta so you have to go there, see if it fits your needs, and then email me to get the...

Hi: I recently got interested in this, and can probably tell you more than you want to know about the internal file format. I even typed some of it up since its not well documented. See http://home.earthlink.net/~will_kranz/msbackup.htm If its a file on disk or CDrom you can get at it, but if...

Hi All: Are people still having trouble with this, or is it an old enough problem that it has been resolved. I notice some of the posts are a year old. I also notice some talk about Win95 and Win98 *.qic backups being incompatible. I'd be interested in that as Microsoft appears to claim they...