Many of you have switched from Windows XP to Windows 7, and was very careful to backup your entire computer to a laptop or external hard drive. After installing Windows 7, many find out that it had changed its backup application, and are unable to restore their backup from their laptop or external hard drive to their new Windows 7 desktop. Is there a fix?
First Kudos for backing up your system. Demerits for removing backward compatibility from your utility, Microsoft.
It's true: the Windows 7 Backup program can't restore files created with the Windows XP Backup program. Fortunately, there is indeed a fix: the Windows NT Backup Restore Utility.
I know: you didn't use Windows NT to create your backup. But the utility that came with Windows XP was called NTBackup.
Be sure to download the correct version of the Restore Utility--"x86" for Windows 7 32-bit, "x64" for Windows 7 64-bit. Then just install it, run it, and point it to your backup file(s). Should do the trick.
Windows NT Backup Restore Utility restores backups that are made on Windows XP and on Windows Server 2003 to computers that are running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The utility comes in handy if you have moved from Windows XP to Windows 7.
