BKF files importance, their corruption and their curing!

Published by Jacob Martin on May 13, 2014

BKF is a proprietary format which is used to backup file so that their backup versions can be used when the original data is lost. BKF files can be backed up on to tape, floppy disks, ZIP drives and hard disk drives. This file format is used as NTBACKUP which is the built-in backup application. This was introduced in Windows NT and it has now become the part of all subsequent versions up to which include 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. Creating backup files which come in handy in the emergency case of loss of abrupt original data loss. This acts as the replacement or subtitle of the lost data. This backup data can be used for further purpose like professional, personal, and organizational and leisure purposes. The data which is saved in BKF files becomes important for almost all users because this safeguards them from adversity of sudden data loss.

Even the data which is kept in BKF file cannot be guaranteed to be safe from showing errors due to corruption or damage. This type of corruption can occur due to following reasons such as media errors, interrupted backup process, virus infection, CRC errors, improper system shutdown, catalog files missing, hard disk drive failure or due to backup interruption. All these are the following errors which are shown in BKF file corruption.

Mentioned below are the BKF file errors:

• The backup file is unusable so you must erase it or select another file.
• The backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used
• Fixed media is full and you cannot backup all of the specified data to this disk device. The backup operation will stop.
• An inconsistency was encountered on the requested media.

0×80070005: Create a manual restore point the following may be displayed- access is denied

0×80070024: Incomplete version of the serializing package

0×80040154: Volume shadow copy service error. Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance

0x800700B: “the filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. System restore will now close”

0x8007000E: System restores fails with error in the windows recovery environment

0×80040109: The restore point could not be created for the following reasons- Windows cannot create a shadow copy due to internal error in other system components.

0×80070057: File backup fails with the following error- The parameter is incorrect

0x800423F4: Complete PC Backup fails with the following error code- The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried, then the error is likely to reoccur.

0x80071A91: Transaction support within the specified file system resource manager that is not started or was shut down due to an error.

There is a possible way to repair the corruption. For that you need to use BKF File Repair Tool which is an advanced repair tool which can repair the corruption. This tool is capable of scanning the corrupted BKF file and also their data is extracted. This is one of the powerful software which can repair the corrupt or damaged BKF file effectively. It can recover your corrupt BKF file within few minutes searches for the corrupt BKF file in the system if its location in not known in the PC. It supports Windows XP, 2000, 2003 backup utilities. This BKF tool has all the capabilities. By effectively carrying out the repair process, this tool helps in taking your business to a new height.

Steps to repair corrupt BKF file:

Step 1: Choose the single file by hitting “Select file” option or a folder containing all word files hit on “Select folder”.

Step 2: List of files is displayed; select the BKF file by using checkbox which you want to repair and after that hit on “Scan” button.

Step 3: You can see the preview of the scanned file by hitting on the file in both “Full document”.

Step 4:  After selecting the files to recover, select the destination folder where you want to save those files.

Step 5: At last hit on “Start Repair” button. After that select the option for saving your file from ‘Save document” and then hit on “OK”