I'm getting this error opening a user pickder dialog box while connecting to SQL 2012 on Server 2012 from SSMS on a Win 7 client. I noticed when I...

Old Hand is correct. This is a native SQL backup.

Hey Guys. Thanks for all the replies.

to answer some of your questions:

The restore did the same thing if RECOVERY was explicitly specified or not. The...

When i run that i get:

DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.

I don't see any errors.

I don't get an error message. If I run the restore from the GUI it quickly gets to 100% and then the green thing spins for hours. If...