How to Restore Windows 7 Backups on Windows 81 or 10

Windows 8 comes with a feature that supports for restoring Windows 7 backups, but Microsoft removed this feature in Windows 8.1. But there is still a way is there to restore your files from Windows 7 backups on to Windows 8.1 or 10, but there are few things you need to do. Also Windows 8.1 supports restoring system image backups feature, but this too doesnrsquot help if you have used Windows backup on Windows 7.



Locate Backup
First you need to connect the drive containing your Windows 7 backups to your PC running on Windows 8.1 or 10. In the drive locate the file with name of PC backups are from alongside ldquoMediaID.binrdquo file. Double click on the file folder with the name of your Windows 7 PC to open it.
Inside the folder you will see few other folders named Backup Set YEARMMDD . And each Backup Set folder is a separate backup. Here locate any backup file with the date and time which you want to restore your files from. If you just like to restore the last backup, then select the most recent folder.
Also yoursquoll find one or more folders named ldquoBackup Files YEARMMDD rdquo alongside a ldquoCatalogsrdquo folder. Each ldquoBackup Filesrdquo folder is an incremental backup of the same overall backup, so choose the most recent backup file.
Extract the Backups
Inside each and every Backup Files folder, you will find multiple ldquoBackup files.ziprdquo which is the archives of your backup files. Open every zip file one by one and examine the file to see whether it contains the file you required and extract it. There is no better way of telling which zip file contains the file which you required and you probably want more than one file.
To extract the zip file, we recommend using a fileextraction program like 7Zip. Once yoursquove installed it, you can select all the .zip files, rightclick them, and select 7Zip Extract files. 7Zip will extract all the files from the archives you selected, getting all the files backed up when you performed that backup.
Extract them to a specific folder, such as a folder named ldquoWindows 7 Backupsrdquo on your desktop. Repeat this process for each individual Backup Files folder. Remember that each Backup Files folder is an incremental backup. So, when you extract the .zip files from the first folder, yoursquore getting all the files that existed when you first backed up, at the state they were in that backup. When you extract the files from the second backup file folder, yoursquore getting all the new or changed files.
Consider extracting each set of incremental backups to the same folder, from oldest to newest, overwriting any duplicate files. As long as you do this in the correct order, you should end up with a single folder structure containing only the most recent versions of your files.
Dig Through Your Backups
Even after extracting the file, you still need to dig through the backups, deleting the files that are unnecessary because deleted files will be present still and you can extract the important files from the backups. For this, you need to navigate to the folder where you have extracted the backups.
The folder structure of your backup will be obvious, so there will be a C folder that represents your C drive, User folder representing Users and folders of every account on your PC. If you have backed up from the other folders on Windows PC, you will see the folders representing them as well.