How to Restore Windows 7 Backups on Windows 8.1 or 10
Windows 8 offered support for restoring Windows 7 backups, but Microsoft removed this feature in Windows 8.1. There’s still a way to restore your files from Windows 7 backups on Windows 8.1, but it’ll take more work. Microsoft saw the error of their ways and this is now easier on Windows 10. Windows 8.1 does offer support for restoring system image backups, but that won’t help if you’ve just used Windows Backup on Windows 7 to create backup copies of your important files. How to restore file from system image . (If you have a Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC lying around, you can also connect that drive to the computer running an older copy of Windows and restore the important files from the backup, placing them on an external drive and carrying them to your new PC.) The Easy Method for Windows 10 After removing the easy Windows 7 restore tool from Windows 8.1, Microsoft put it back in Windows 10. Just open the Control Panel, select “System and Security,” and choose “Backup and Restore (Wi