Last Updated on December 3, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
I just installed a buffalo Linkstation Network addressable storage device. That is working really well and is giving me 500GB of Raid1 Storage. I was in the process of copying files from my ancient and wheezy HP desktop. What had happened was that I had previously moved a couple of gigabytes of files of lesser importance to an Iomega 250 GB hard drive.
By the time I got around to copying from the Iomega, I found that the drive had died. No problem, being a tech savvy computer guru type, I had a backup of the files on another drive that was created with MS Backup on my old XP machine. … HOWEVER, Vista Home Premium does not include the backup utility. The machine cannot read the BKF files.
My immediate workaround is to simply use the old machine to restore the backup from the old bkf files. No problem there.
This could be a problem for home and small office users who depended on the MS Backup utility and find themselves without the ability to restore old BKF files.
There are a couple of possibilities.
- Keep an old XP machine around with MS Backup on it
- Purchase a third party app that will read MS Backup files
- Purchase MS Vista Business in a version that has the Backup/restore utility.