>Hello,
>
>I had a hard drive go bad. When I went to restore my most recent Windows Backup File -- .bkf file, I received a message that "The backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used."
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>I have looked on the Internet for .bkf repair programs and found bkfRepair for $399.00.
>
>Are there other less expensive solutions to recover this Windows Backup File?
>
>Thanks,
>
>TFISHER

I don't know if this is the same problem....but there is this...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=269826

Other than that, the BKFRecovery app you're talking about (2.0 now I think) is the only thing I've heard of that will recover such a file unless you wanna pay an outside company to recover it.