Finding an image off a back up

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Hi,
I have been regularly backing up my laptop onto a external hard drive but not checking what or how it was doing. I have tried to find some images but i am really struggling to make sense of it. There appears to be over 200 Gb on the external so there is a lot of something on there!
I just do the overall backup rather than just photography stuff, I kinda assumed that the external would only save new stuff....?

I finally fought my way through layers of folders and seem to end up with zip files that won't unzip! Also I have run backups about every two weeks for many months but can't a] seem to find most of them and b] the ones i find don't seem to be complete, particularly as far as my photos go. I expected to see a mirror image of what was on my computer. I ran one last night and it seems to be as i would expect but what happened to the rest?

Dunc
 
You cannot just copy the backup files across, you need to restore them using Vista.
You need to go to control panel, system & maintenance, backup & restore centre and select Restore files from a backup.

You get the chance to select just the files that you want to restore.

Kev
 
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