Backup

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 these have some of my files in them.

My question is: can I just go into my Control Panel and tell it to “Restore” using the WD files, or do I need to open each file (1-190) and copy and paste or drag my files in Windows Exlplorer?

Also, I have created new files on the new computer. Will I mess those up by doing a restore?

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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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Thanks Trancer