I have a backup on an external drive created with the Dell USB Key Solution and is of the name 05-01-2012_135210_Backup and looks like this:
Directory of E:\05-01-2012_135210_Backup
01/05/2012 05:21 PM <DIR> .
01/05/2012 05:21 PM <DIR> ..
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 2,012 APPS.INP
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 942 APPS_0000.INP
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 1,449,984 APPS_0001.INP
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 3,713,788 DATA.INP
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 949,160 DATA_0000.INP
01/05/2012 04:59 PM 650,996,224 DATA_0001.INP
01/05/2012 05:00 PM 650,377,728 DATA_0002.INP
01/05/2012 05:01 PM 650,780,672 DATA_0003.INP
01/05/2012 05:01 PM 650,156,544 DATA_0004.INP
01/05/2012 05:02 PM 650,135,040 DATA_0005.INP
01/05/2012 05:03 PM 650,592,768 DATA_0006.INP
01/05/2012 05:03 PM 650,867,200 DATA_0007.INP
01/05/2012 05:04 PM 650,413,568 DATA_0008.INP
01/05/2012 05:05 PM 650,225,152 DATA_0009.INP
01/05/2012 05:05 PM 650,678,272 DATA_0010.INP
01/05/2012 05:06 PM 651,130,880 DATA_0011.INP
01/05/2012 05:07 PM 650,716,160 DATA_0012.INP
01/05/2012 05:08 PM 650,323,968 DATA_0013.INP
01/05/2012 05:08 PM 650,544,640 DATA_0014.INP
01/05/2012 05:09 PM 650,903,552 DATA_0015.INP
01/05/2012 05:10 PM 650,121,728 DATA_0016.INP
01/05/2012 05:11 PM 650,273,280 DATA_0017.INP
01/05/2012 05:12 PM 650,703,872 DATA_0018.INP
01/05/2012 05:13 PM 650,381,824 DATA_0019.INP
01/05/2012 05:13 PM 650,613,248 DATA_0020.INP
01/05/2012 05:14 PM 650,506,752 DATA_0021.INP
01/05/2012 05:15 PM 650,527,744 DATA_0022.INP
01/05/2012 05:15 PM 650,539,008 DATA_0023.INP
01/05/2012 05:16 PM 650,273,792 DATA_0024.INP
01/05/2012 05:17 PM 650,347,520 DATA_0025.INP
01/05/2012 05:17 PM 651,014,656 DATA_0026.INP
01/05/2012 05:18 PM 650,540,544 DATA_0027.INP
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 478,608,896 DATA_0028.INP
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 2,281,350 include.xml
01/05/2012 05:21 PM 1,330,286 migr.xml
35 File(s) 18,053,022,754 bytes
2 Dir(s) 607,587,577,856 bytes free
I was not able to complete the full running of the Dell Direct USB Key solution because of various issues. . Dell ended up sending me a new Windows 7 imaged HDD drive. I now have the laptop up and running again with Windows 7and have various applications installed. That is all pretty good. But now how do I get my data files restored? Basically I want to connect the backup external drive and complete Step 19 of the solution as described below.
Here are the steps OS using the Dell USB key: 1. Boot from the Direct USB Key by tapping F12 at the Dell logo, then select the USB Memory Key option from the boot device menu. 2. Accept the Dell End User License Agreement (EULA) by clicking the box next to Accept, scroll down till the end of the license agreement and then click on continue. 3. On this screen, the usb key gives an overview of the process it is about to perform, click continue when ready to proceed. 4. The Smart Repair solution runs a surface scan on the system to identify any errors with the boot record or the startup files. If any errors are found, they are automatically corrected. 5. Once the process completes, there will be an analysis summary, in this case, there is no issue found by the smart repair, click continue. 6. In this window the user can select what data they would like to back up, they can either go with the default backup solution or they can click select more to select more files for backup, click continue after selecting files for backup. 7. If user clicks on select more, they will get the screen below, they can go ahead and select the necessary data for backup by checking the box next to the respective folder, sub-directories are selected by default once the root folder is selected. 8. The user will be prompted to attach a USB hard drive to the system, user needs to connect the USB Hard drive at this point and click continue. 9. Once the solution detects the USB hard drive , it goes ahead with file backup. 10. Once the files are backed up, the solution will back up the user personal settings. 11. The Direct USB Key displays a summary of the data and personal settings backup. Click continue. 12. The Direct USB key then proceeds to install the operating system image on the system. 13. Once the operating system image is transferred, the drivers are also transferred. 14. After the operating system image and driver transfer, a summary page comes up giving the user information as to what process was performed successfully and what failed. The user needs to remove the USB key at this point and click restart. 15. The system restarts and comes to a flash screen on recovery and restore. 16. After the flash screen, the applications start installing. 17. Once the applications are installed, the user would see a summary screen informing them that the Operating system has been restored, connect the Direct USB Key and click restart. 18. After the restart the user will be prompted to connect the data backup hard drive and then click continue. 19. The files and personal settings are then restored from the USB backup drive. 20. After the files are transferred the system comes to the desktop with a pop up window informing the user to check the device manager for any exclamation marks, the tool also guides the user to download the drivers from the support site and the applications from My Dell Downloads and Dell Digital Delivery. User needs to select the check box to prevent the message from being displayed again and click close.
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What program/utility can be used to run step 19 to restore my data?
Thanks in advance!