Hi, Welcome to the Community, To restore data from external HDD or USB, try to download and run this migration utility from [URL] . Note: Unzip the file and run the application (with the external HDD or USB connected). If at all the restoration process gets stuck at 99% (as reported by few of the users), you may close the utility and check the data, all data would have got restored successfully. Let me know how it goes. If you can't locate it from HDD or USB then you can copy the .inp files to your computer on C drive in a folder and use the MigRestore utility to point to the folder on the computer. Thank You
Ok, so recently I had to reformat my Windows 8 Pro ultrabook. I tried to refresh the OS, restore from a previous restore point and reinstall the OS before I had to format it. Unfortunately none of the previous methods worked as I could not get past an unending start up screen or a blue screen error. When I tried to reinstall the OS it backed up all my user files to an external hard drive in an .inp file format. In that folder location it also created a migr.xml and include.xml file. After going through the include.xml file in a text editor I saw all my files that were lost were in the .inp archives. Is there anyway to retrieve those files?
Anyway to restore files from an .inp backup from reformat?