Firstly, open BKF Repair software
Go to Start menu > Programs > BKF Repair > BKF repair

Software’s start-up screen will appear as shown below:

Now, click on the “Load” button present on the toolbar. This will lead to the browsing option as shown under:

Select the corrupt BKF file that you need to repair. After selecting, click on the “Open" button.

As you click open, software will initiate the loading process as shown in the following screenshot:



After the loading process completes, you can see the preview of selected files as shown below:

Now, click the “Extract” button present on the toolbar of the above page to finally extract the repaired files from corrupt BKF. As you click extract, software will ask you to choose a location where you want to save the recovered files, as shown below:

Browse a location where you wish to save the recovered files and then click on the “OK" button. The software will start saving the recovered files and folders to your selected location.

If you need to load another BKF file, follow the following steps:

To load another BKF file?
For loading another BKF file, you don’t have to start from the first step. Just go to the screen shown below and choose the BKF file, whose recovery you have completed, from the tree structure in the left side of the window; right click on it and choose Close Backup File option. This will close that backup file and then you can click on the “Load" button again to load another BKF file for recovery.

To open the recovered BKF files
To find the recovered BKF file/files, you have to navigate the location where you had saved those file/files during Microsoft backup recovery process using BKF Repair tool. Double click to open those recovered file/files using their respective application/applications.

A new and really beneficial feature has been added in the updated version 5.4 of BKF Repair tool. This is the "Range Based Scan" feature and it is helpful for recovering data from large sized BKF files. Mostly, users have large sized BKF files to this feature is useful to many. In the recovery of large sized files, you can quickly do partial scan to extract only a small amount of data.

If you want to extract only a small percentage of data from any large sized BKF file, then this feature of “Range Based Scan” is useful to you. 

For performing this function, you have to click on the “Actions” menu present on the toolbar. Then select "Range Based Scan" option from the drop down menu as shown below: 

On clicking Range Based Scan, following window will appear:  

Enter a value for Range Based Scan and click “OK”

What Is This Value?

The value that you will enter above is the percentage of data that will be extracted from the selected large sized BKF file. (For example – on choosing (say 25%), you will be able to recover only 25% of data from the selected BKF file.  

After the completion of this function, you can preview the selected files as shown below.

Follow these quick and simple steps to recover BKF data from your corrupt backup files using BKF Repair. Still if there is any problem or you have any query; contact our technical support staff which is available 24X7 for your assistance.