How to restore from a corrupt BKF file... 5

[mbabauer]

About a week ago, my wife's computer started acting up. After some initial verrification, it was determined that the main drive, a Western Digital 450AA IDE drive, was starting to fail. I attempted to back it up to another drive using NTBackup, but before the job was 100%, the drive made its final attempt at life and rolled over not-so-gracefully.

Long story short, the drive is dead, and I am now looking at a 27gb BKF file that does not work. I have been doing research for serveral days, and the only solution I can find is a program from E-Tech called BKFRecovery. The problem...its $1099 for a license to do 25gb+ files...just a little much to pay for something that I only plan to use once. I also tried this Linux MTF reader, compiled on XP using Cygwin, but it reads the header info and does little more with a good backup file, and careens off the cliff with the broken file.

My question is very simple...is there a way for me to get what files are backed up in the BKF file out? Using the demo version of BKFRecovery, I can see that all of what I really need is backed up, and the only think I can see that is not was the Windows directory stuff, which I don't really care about. Please, please, please...someone come to my rescue!!!


Thanks in advance,

Mike Bauer

 

[GlammaKid]

Hello!


first... sorry for my bad english!
i've read your discussion on how to restore files from a .bkf file.
i know that it's more than a year ago that this discussion finished. but maybe some other people are searching for a solution to the same problem.

i don't have a .bkf file that i needed to restore, i had a dds-4 tape which windows won't read. if i want to catalog it it says that i have to insert the tape named 'vollsicherung'. but this tape was inserted. i have only this one tape (i don't know it is a part of a set, or not).

i've made a dump of this tape (with mmpc - but maybe it works with dd too) cause mmpc couldn't restore the files on it (read error fm: 2, blk: 2).

than i've tried ntbkup. i've got more files with ntbkup than with mmpc. ;-) that ntbkup could handle this dump was "very nice". but ntbkup has produced an errormessage by windows xp. sorry, but i've only the german errormessage. it calls something like: the order in "0x004016fd" points to memory at "0x00417f8d".

after that i've tried not to copy the files out, just only listing them.
ntbkup xxxx.dup >content.txt and
ntbkup xxxx.dup -d >directories.txt

then i've tried e-tech's bkf recovery. it listed me more files than ntbkup. hmmmm.

i've found a program called advanced bkf repair. it "only" cost's 149$ (some people here would spend 300$ for a tool like this) and has a very good logging option.

jmtf didn't work for me. i couldn't start the .jar file. if i double klick on it, nothing happens. i've installed jre-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe. i don't know, why it doesn't start.