Newbie help needed! Not sure whether I can restore data backup to new computer
Hi all, and sorry to sound so thick.
I've just bought a new PC. I knew I was getting it and so backed up the data on my old PC to an external drive with what is now Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.
I'm now thinking that maybe I should have simply copied the files over to the external drive, as I can't work out a way to get the backup from the external drive to the new PC. Had they simply been copied files rather than a backup then I could presumably have just copied them across.
Can anybody please help me with this? I still have the old PC and so I know I could dismantle the new one and reinstate the old one and do it all again, but there's limited space here and I don't have room for them both to run at once and so that seems like a horrible faff. I'm hoping there might be some way round it.
A further complication is that I'd forgotten that the Acronis product only covers one PC, and so to install it on the new one I had to 'forget' the old one.
Can anybody please help, even if it's just to tell me that it's impossible?
Many thanks for any help!


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