I couldn't restore the bak file

(yahya kemal kaya) writes:
> First of all happy new year to all.
> I could not restore the bak file to sql server 2000. i rescued the bak
> files from a formatted hard drive. Now i want to restore it to the sql
> server but i can't do it. there is a message like this "it doesn't a sql
> backup file that you want to restore". Please help me.

What is the exact error message? Or is that a translation from your
localised version of SQL Server?

It seems that either your backup file is damaged, or you have gotten hold
of a completely different file that you intended. It was a backup from
SQL 2000, you thought you had, wasn't it?

I'm afraid that there is not much help you can get here with the amount
of information you have provided.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel.DeleteThis@sommarskog.se

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