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How to Recover from an external drive with a backup created on another computer

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I have built a 9900KS machine recently and had no problem moving my data to that machine as I was using TI 2018. Just put the NVME drive in the new mobo and loaded TI 2018 and restored from backup. This machine is a AMD3950X so it is enough different that I am using a fresh Win 10 install and want to simple recover some files, folders and programs to the newly working machine. Now both machines are on 2020. So I do a full backup on the Intell 9900KS machine. Got it. Twas EZ. I did that backup to an external SSD drive. Put that external drive in the new machine which easily recognizes the external SSD and I confirm the backup file is on the drive and load up TI 2020 and it will only recognize one backup and that is the backup I made with 2020 on this machine. Even though Explorer can read the other drives TI2020 is acting deaf and dumb when it comes to trying to recover from the external SSD.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can correct it. Both machines are here and available so I can do a different backup on the other machine if necessary.

Should I delete TI 2020 and reinstall TI 2018 on both machines and use it. Pretty certain 2018 could search for other Tib files in connected drives and recover from them.

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I am using a fresh Win 10 install and want to simple recover some files, folders and programs to the newly working machine.

Open Win 10 Explorer to the location where your backup file is stored then double-click on that file and start exploring the contents.  From there you can use normal Copy & Paste controls to copy the files / folders you want.

With regards to programs, you can only copy over the program installer files then do a new install of those programs on the new computer.

Please see KB 19296: Acronis products cannot be used to transfer applications to different system or upgrade OS

Steve,

As usual, thank you for your help.  I did something similar in that I used an ethernet cable to transfer files from the old to the new computer.