Guide to Open Backup File

Guide to Know How to Open Corrupt Backup File?

• Start SysTools BKF Recovery. Go to Start » Programs » SysTools BKF Repair. Open SysTools BKF Repair, start-up screen appear as follows:
  
  
  
  

• Open Corrupt Backup File
  Click on Load button to quickly open corrupt BKF file and explore bkf file contents.
  
  
  

• SysTools BKF Repair start loading all files and folders from corrupt BKF file in Windows explorer like structure as shown below:
  
  
  
  
• After successfully loading the corrupt BKF file, you can view files & explore files in BKF file. To view content of the file, select file, right click the file then choose View File from popup menu just as shown below:

  

  After this, SysTools BKF Repair then open Backup file as shown below and allows you to view content of file in View Content tab as shown below:

  

• SysTools BKF Reader tool allows user save contents of the BKF file after viewing the contents. To Extract files & folders from BKF file follow the steps below:

• Extract Files from BKF File
  To extract specific files from BKF file, locate that particular file and select the file from File View, Right click the file then select Extract File from popup menu
  
  

• Extract Folders from BKF File
  To extract specific folders from BKF file, select folder from Explore View, Right click the folder then select Extract Folder from popup menu.
  
  

• Extract Complete BKF File
  To extract complete BKF file, Select BKF file from Explore View, Right click the BKF file name shown in the tree then select Extract from popup menu.
  
  

• After this, SysTools BKF Repair software will ask you to locate the location to save the files as shown below:
  
  

• Choose the desired location and click on OK to begin the file(s) or folder extraction process

• Close BKF File SysTools BKF Repair is designed with a unique capability of "on-the-fly" loading of file just one after another. After extracting files and folders, you can close the loaded BKF file and open another BKF file.
• To close current or loaded BKF file, Select BKF File from Explore View, Right click the BKF file name shown in the tree then select Close Backup File from popup menu.
  
  
  
  
• After this, SysTools BKF Repair will display its initial screen:
  
  

A new and advanced feature has been added in the updated version 5.2 of SysTools BKF Repair tool and that is of "Partial Scan". This feature is useful in recovering small amount of data from a large sized BKF file. For any large sized file, you can quickly do partial scan if you need only small amount of data from it.

• For performing the function of Partial Scan, click the “Actions” menu on the toolbar of the software. Select "Partial Scan" option from the drop down menu as shown below: 
  
  
• After you click on Partial Scan, following window will appear:  
  

Enter a value for Partial Scan.

What is this value? The value that you will enter is the percentage of data that will be extracted from the selected large sized BKF file. (For example – if you enter a value (say 25), then the software will recover only 25% of data from the selected large sized BKF file. This will save your precious time greatly.

• After Partial Scan completes, you can see the preview of selected files as shown in the following screenshot: