Problem when restoring files from windows backup!

[jrjwdavis]

Hey Guys,

I have recently replaced my broken hardrive in my pc and would like to restore my files from my back up on my external hardrive.

Sadly a lot of my files are not being restored due to the issue displayed in the image. Please help I a missing lots of important pictures etc.

 

[Anshad Edavana]

Hi

You can try to manually extract the files by following instructions on this tutorial : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/174270-backup-manually-extract-files-vista-windows-7-a.html

 

[jrjwdavis]

thank you.

but surely there is an easier way/explanation? why cant I just restore? I don't understand the error?

 

[Tookeri]

From the screenshot I noticed the user folder(JRJWDA~1) seems to be shown with 8.3/SFN format. Or perhaps that was because it had to restore to a different folder, as mentioned in the top of the screenshot.

I don't know, but maybe it's related to this: Windows 7 File Recovery Error 0x80070131 - restore fails on filenames - Microsoft Community

I don't enough about this to recommend it, but maybe someone else does? How to disable 8.3 file name creation on NTFS partitions

 

[Anshad Edavana]

but surely there is an easier way/explanation? why cant I just restore? I don't understand the error?

May be the restore operation is trying to restore your files to the previous user profile. Since you re-installed OS, your old profile no longer exists so path references in the backup might became invalid.

 

[jrjwdavis]

Hi great, so how can I retrieve my files back ??

 

[Anshad Edavana]

so how can I retrieve my files back ??

So you don't even give a try to http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/174270-backup-manually-extract-files-vista-windows-7-a.html yet ?.

 

[jrjwdavis]

I want to get the files in their original folders otherwise I will likely have 60,000 files to search through?