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PC desktop backup

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Oh, woe is me. I performed a backup of my system on a Seagate external drive. Then I reset my Dell Inspiron 3891 desktop PC.
I was able to reload win 11 and most of everything else just by allowing following instructions from the MS Website without having to go to the backup on my Seagate drive.
Now I want to reload Pictures and other files including One-Drive and Notebook. With the Seagate attached to my PC I am able to see the files, BUT how do I upload, or download them? When I open the Seagate I see it contains “WINDOWIMAGE BACKUP” and these files

Backup 2022-11-22-181152
Catalog
Logs
SPP MetadataCache
Mediaide

Thanks, guys, and Happy Thanksgiving,
Eddie460

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This sounds like a “Microsoft Backup.”

In reply to PC desktop backup

Restoring such has been problematic and why I always ask folk to backup what they can’t lose with simpler sync or outright copies.

Read https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-and-restore-your-pc-ac359b36-7015-4694-de9a-c5eac1ce9d9c and hope you can find and restore the files you want.

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Click Start, type backup in the Start Search box, and then click Backup and Restore in the Programs list. Click Back up files under Back up files or your entire computer. Select where you want to store the file backup, and then click Next.

Regards,
John

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That doesn’t help the OP at all. He asks how to restore.

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