Recent content by JohnSV

Still haven't got the drive with the backups sent to me, but I'd like to recover everything that's on it. So opening the backup files with 7-zip just to grab the odd data file is going to be pretty well useless. Instead if any (potentially) large enough Win 7 image will restore my drives...

Thanks theog, So the encryption method is known by 7-zip? I'll try this once I get the drive shipped to me, and will let the forum know the result.

Thanks both for replying so quickly. I have neither an "easy transfer" file nor an image, just what I assume is an encrypted original backup file with 3-4 incremental updates made over the past year or so. So the info is all there, but only MS may know how to decrypt it all. If I go the vhd...

Is there a way to do this? Don't think my OS was backed up since I was using the Home Premium version, but any recovery of files data and/or GNU licensed programs will be extremely helpful. My camper van was broken into and the OEM support disks are gone as well. Used the standard MS back up...