I was having problems with my laptop so I did a backup to my WD Elements drive. My laptop finally crashed and I bought a new desktop. Both running Windows 7 and MS Office 2007. When I pull up the backup on the WD it is a bunch of files labeled “Backup files 1” through “Backup files 190”. Each of th…

Welcome to the Community. if the backup was created using WIndows Backup, then it would be best to restore it using the same application. Restoring the files should not affect currently-existing files.

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dalearch December 4, 2014, 10:06pm 3

Thanks Trancer