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How to Recover Damaged MS Backup Files?

Guide to Recover Damaged MS Backup Files with Advanced BKF Repair.
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Advanced BKF Repair is a powerful tool to repair corrupt Microsoft backup(BKF) files. It will scan the BKF files and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption.

When your Microsoft backup files(.bkf files) are damaged or corrupt due to various reasons and you cannot restore them correctly, you can use Advanced BKF Repair to scan the .bkf files and recover the data from them as much as possible.

Step 1, Start Advanced BKF Repair.

Click here to download free version of Advanced BKF Repair.

Note: Before recovering damaged or corrupt Microsoft bkf file with Advanced BKF Repair, please close Microsoft Backup Utility and any other applications that may modify the bkf file.

Step 2, Select MDB File to be Repaired

Select the damaged or corrupt Microsoft bkf file to be repaired:

Select MDB File to be Repaired

You can input the bkf file name directly or click Browse for Source MDB File button to browse and select the file.

Step 3, Select Fixed File Name

By default, Advanced BKF Repair will recover the items in the bkf file and save them into a directory xxxx_recovered, where xxxx is the source bkf file name. For example, for file Damaged.bkf , the default output directory will be Damaged_recovered. If you want to use another name, then please select or set it accordingly:

Select Fixed File Name

You can input the directory name directly or click Browse for Destination MDB File button to browse and select the directory.

Step 4, Scan and Repair the source bkf file

Click Start Repair button, Advanced BKF Repair will start scanning and repairing the source bkf file. Progress bar Process Bar Progress bar Process Bar will indicate the repair progress.

After the repair process, if the source bkf file can be repaired successfully, you will see a messagebox like this:

Message Box

Step 5, Recover DBF file

Now you can open the directory Damaged_recovered containing all the recovered items in the bkf file.

Note: The demo version will display the following messagebox to show the success of the recovery:

Demo Version Message Box

where you can click Show Recovery Report button to see a detailed report of every recoverable file in the BKF file, including the file name, file size, as well as the data set, volume, and directory the file belongs to, like this:

Recovery Report

According to the report, you can know whether Advanced BKF Repair can recover your bkf file. However, the demo version will not save the recovered files. Please order the full version to get these files.

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