Tuesday 25 March 2014

World Backup Day 2014 - How Crucial It Can Be?

Few days are left for World Backup Day i.e. 31st March and benefit of this day is that, it reminds you to create backup of your crucial data on different platforms and in different fields. Backups are for playing a huge role in day-to-day life or professional life; as it helps in securing your personal data as well as official data. One can create backup & store it at locations like internet, local system, external drive etc.

Your system can face any mishap in future & stored data can be inaccessible, so it will be a better solution to backup your pc/laptop/server data etc in advance.

Noticeable Fact: World Backup Day 2014 is going to be crucial for users who are working on Windows XP platform as we are familiar with the fact that "End of Support for Windows XP" is coming soon.

Monday 24 March 2014

Thursday 20 March 2014

Outlook PST File Conversion – Facilitation to Access PST Emails Into Various Platforms

MS Outlook, the foremost application utilized by computer users for emailing and other concerns. Various versions of the application are availed into international market for offering easiness to perform emailing tasks and collaborative operations easily and instantly. Including instant work for data share when connected to internet, Outlook can easily utilized when you are facing concerns regarding internet connectivity. It means this application makes your tasks easy during improper internet connectivity or during Server downtime. Outlook when works in offline mode then, data gets stored into OST file format. Both of files named as OST and PST are same, little difference in these file formats is OST’s data gets stored into local folders as well as PST data gets saved onto the Server.

Outlook PST Conversion – Is It A Necessary Need??

Often times, all such facilities with Outlook do not attract users when they are in instant need to access emails and other details into different file format like MSG, EML etc. In such compelling situations, Outlook PST file conversion is utilized by Outlook users. To extract emails and other details from PST to other file formats, it is needed to go for a professional solution that can easily shift a big range of emails from PST to desired file format without losing original properties.

Highly Opted File Formats During PST File Conversion

For shifting contacts from PST to globally accessible file format, PST users should adopt vCard file format, this is not only accepted over different email clients but also useful for users those have dependency on digital gadgets. vCard contacts can easily added to the contact list of users’ mobile or laptop etc.

When we talk about extraction of PST emails into different file formats like EML, MSG, HTML, MHT, etc then, all these email file formats have their own significance. EML and MSG file formats are treated as single email file format. With these file formats one can keep their crucial emails into a specified file format.

HTML and MHT file formats are accepted over a great range of users those want to keep emails accessible into distinct browsers. As well as extracting emails from PST to RTF or TXT is helpful to make PST emails reachable as a simple text file.

Tuesday 18 March 2014

How to Proceed With The Windows XP Backup After 8 April 2014 as Support Ends for Windows XP?

Time has finally come when Microsoft will cease all the extending support for Windows XP and the unofficial date is 8th April 2014. Windows XP users might be gathering answers to quest like how to deal with XP backup after 8 April 2014. Considering the fact that 29% of users are still connected to Windows XP and some of these belong to some organizations and others are individual home users from various corners of the world, this huge step will not be easy to tackle.




Will Windows XP Stop Running Completely?

No! You will be able to access Windows XP the way you did before and you can continue using this OS after April 2014 also.
  • There will not be any difference operating Windows XP but the technical assistance provided for XP OS will not be given anymore.
  • Automatic updates for protection or security of OS will not be provided.
  • MS Security Essentials for any download on this Operating System will be restricted thereby increasing the risk factor of systems with this OS getting infected by virus.
  • Microsoft will end releasing any security updates and patches.
  • This step has been taken by Microsoft so as to implement all resources towards recent technologies instead of supplying them to older versions for more productivity.
  • But Windows XP will not be completely terminated and users can use this Operating System later also.
What About Windows XP NTBackup File?

Well as far as the security and safety is concerned, user must backup all data files regularly and update it regularly. This will be wise decision to take a backup without any delay so that if anything goes wrong with your data as security will be less in Windows XP you will have a safe side so that you can restore back your data. This backup can be easily created by NTBackup utility which is present in Windows XP OS and will continue to be afterwards also so that backup can be created.

What If You Decide to Migrate to Windows 7/8?

In case you feel that continuing with Windows XP OS will be risky and decide to move to Windows 7 or 8 you can easily do this by simply transferring all the data to new OS in one go by restoring BKF file. But, since Windows 7 or 8 do not support BKF file you will need some extra platform to be used for restoring backup file of Windows XP. For this you will need third party software like BKF Restore Tool which is capable to restore backup file without NTBackup utility.

Friday 14 March 2014

Eliminate Error Messages Like “The backup file is unusable. You must erase it, or choose another file”

When users try to restore data from BKF file of Microsoft Windows 2000, they confront error messages like;
[Unrecognized Media]
The backup file is unusable. You must erase it, or choose another file



In such situation user should not waste time putting efforts in repairing this BKF file manually and should opt for BKF repairing tool immediately.  This is because such kind of error messages are shown when BKF file has been de-structured and has become unable-to-recognize. Let’s see the reasons for such error message;

Root Cause for Such Errors:
This error message is shown because your NTBackup utility restore program is unable to identify .bkf file structure since it has been damaged badly. Corruption in BKF causes file to get damaged to core, and hence it is not in valid Windows 2000 backup file format. When Windows 2000 opens a .bkf file, it first checks if the backup file is valid or not. It means it checks if its structure in valid Windows 2000 backup file format or not. In case file is damaged, it throws error messages like: “The backup file is unusable. You must erase it, or choose another file and restoration process completely stops.

Precautions for Backup Operations:
To check integrity of a backup file, you can select “Verify data After Backup” advance option while performing any backup operation. This option is provided to make sure that backup process is completed successfully and integrity of .bkf file and its structure is maintained. You can also check for backup report to avoid any such kind of errors while restoring.

Professional Solution:
However, when your backup has already been corrupted, such precautionary steps won’t work. These error messages are symptoms that your .bkf file needs some repairing, unless and until it gets repaired it will not get restored. BKF Repair Tool provides an excellent handling of corrupted backup file and helps you extract necessary data files from corrupted .bkf file. It provides many advantageous features which lets you experience a worry-free affair of recovering .bkf file and that too without any annoying prompting error messages. So whenever your BKF restoration process shows error messages like “The backup file is unusable. You must erase it, or choose another fileyou can avail BKF Repair Tool for easy and error-free restoration.

Monday 3 March 2014

Restore XP Backup File to Windows 8 Effortlessly!

Windows 8 and Windows 7 server have completely new backup tools which are way too different from the previous versions. Albeit of the fact that these modifications were grievously needed with growing needs of technically expedite users, those users who had their precious cache stored BKF file are facing the drawbacks of this drastic change.

This is because modifications in features always keep previous features aboard, and every user is very fond of “new” things and forgets about “old” stuff. But when user came to know that the much hyped “new” thing is not capable to meet the requirement of restoring BKF file comprising important backup, modifications tends to become absurd. The bitter truth is backup tool of Windows 8 cannot restore XP backup file to Windows 8.

How To Decipher This Situation?

Complication: Adding insult to injury, the Extensible Storage Manager – is not included in Windows 8. This is important program to run NTBackup utility and its absence might restrict the processing of ntbackup.exe. This means that simply copying the ntbackup.exe from an XP machine is not enough to overcome this situation.

Solution: To initiate the procedure to restore XP backup file to Windows 8, you can copy the below mentioned files to your Windows 8 system. You can either copy it from some other Windows XP system from system32 folder. These files are;
  1. ntbackup.exe
  2. ntmsapi.dll
  3. vssapi.dll
When you will run the ntbackup.exe file and start the process you might encounter the error message like:

“Removable Storage Not Running”

Ignore this message and follow the steps:
·        You will have to point NTBackup utility to the .bkf files at your own because BKF files will not be registered with this application.

·         Right-click the Files tree and select Catalog File. Select your BKF file and click Okay.

Limitation: Backup saved in tape drives and other storage devices will not be supported in the above mentioned method. This process is also not recommended for practicing many times.

Other Cases: Due to corruption it might happen that in spite of all these steps you are ceased from restoring BKF file and at that time BKF File Repair tool can bring the ultimate solution for your problems to restore XP backup file to Windows 8.