Corrupt windows backup files

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When trying to restore a backup file that had been copied from its initial
location, I tried to catalog the file and although it initially appeared to
be successful, there was no filename shown. When I try to expand it to see
the contents of the backup file I get an error message that says "The backup
file could not be found or was not the one requested". Susequent attempts to
access the file result in a corrupt file message and then Backup crashes.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to recover any of the data from
this file?
 
You seem to give a lot of information, yet you leave out the most important
of all.

What backup program are you using? You moved the backup file from what media
to what media. Windows XP I suppose? Is it a current backup? Get the
picture now. More pertinent information is needed - as much as you can give.

Many of the people here are good at problem solving but NONE of them are in
front of your computer. Nor are they mind readers.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Ok, Thanks for the suggestions. Using the forums is new to me.

The OS is Windows XP. The original backup was done using the standard Backup
Utility that comes with Windows XP. It was done to a file on the machine
being backup up. The directory containing the backup file was excluded from
the backup. the backup completed successfully (verify was not selected).
Following the backup the file was copied to another disk drive. The copy was
successful. When trying to catalog the file the error was received.

Thanks for any assistance.
 
Good! Now we have something to work with.

The backup utility, any backup utility, is not designed to save the backup
to the same partition that is the object of the backup. It can be saved to a
different partition or a different drive. You likely induced corruption that
was not noticed at first by saving it to the very same partition that was
being "backed up".

Do another backup and save it to separate media - a different partition on
the same drive, a partition on another hard drive, tape etc.

Since you did not do a verify (always recommended) you don't really know for
certain that the backup you created was, in fact, competent!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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