Backup Now! corrupted files

[JIMADM]

My computer has an Intel processor, pentium III (933mhz), 512 MB of RAM, rumnning WindowsXP SP2.

I have been using the backup program Backup Now! for a couple of years with no problems. (Backup Now! is produced by NewTech Infosystems, or NTI).

The URL for Backup Now! is:
http://www.ntius.com/default.asp?p=backupnow/bun_main

Anyway, all of a sudden my backup files have become corrupted. The backed up files have the extension NBF.

Whenever I try to open a backed up file using the Backup Now! program, I get a message that says "Invalid Backup File". It appears thatmy *.nbf backup files are corrupted. The Backup Now! program will not open the file.

I already contacted NTI, and they were no help at all. They told me that they do not have a software tool that will repair *.nbf files. They did not have any other suggestions.

Other than not being able to open them, my backed up files appear to be normal. The backup files are the correct size, I believe that all of my data is still in the backup file, its just that the Backup Now! program will not open the file.

The Windows XP chkdsk program will not repair the files; neither will the Windows 98 scandisk program.

Does anyone know of a program that can repair *.nbf files? Or, at least maybe there is a program that can extract my data from the corrupted *.nbf files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Jim Adams

[Thurston]

Jim, I have encountered the same frustrating problem. Did you find a solution? howellg@comcast.net

[jmiles]

I had a similar problem, but with a different program, and I was able to open the files with WinZip... it wasn't perfect but it did allow me to recover most of my essential files. Have you tried that?

Cheers,

Julie

[Just1Ghost]

Well, people, in their infinite wisdom, NTI have created an "UPGRADE" to their Backup NOW! software and have NEGLECTED to make it backward compatible!!! How SHORTSIGHTED is this?!? (For those who do not know what backward compatible means, it simply means that the new program, with all of it's newly improved features, etc. WON'T and CANNOT work with previous versions of ITSELF!!! The files themselves AREN'T CORRUPT, they're just not SUPPORTED anymore!!! NTI "assures" the public that they will be making the NEXT "upgrade" backward compatible...in the meantime, those of us who backed up their important files from a laptop that DIED can't even restore them to our desktop system!!! (Bitter?!? You BETCHA!!!)

So, rejoice in the fact that the files are not necessarily corrupted, just unattainable from the new version of the program...

Be well...

-G-