Restoring to a different computer

How were the files backed up? If you used SmartWare, you probably want to install it on the destination computer. It should allow you to choose destination folder(s).

However, you should also be able to use Windows Explorer to look inside the “WD SmartWare.swstor” folder on the My Passport. At the first level you should see a folder with the same name as the source computer. Inside that should be a folder for each drive on the source computer which you backed up files from. It (they) should have names beginning with “Volume.” followed by a fairly long alpha-numeric string. Inside that should be folders named as they were on the source machine. You can copy these directly wherever you wish.

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