I backed up my system on an external hard drive. After the backup was
complete I found on the drive 6 large .dat files (2 gigabytes each), I
imagine are picture files, plus the backup file. I use Picasa to manage my
pictures. After restoring the system none of the pictures can be found. I
tried to restore to a different location as well as restoring to a file. I
also tried all the combinations of security checkpoints. No success so far.
Is there any way to recover these pictures?

Thanks!!

On May 14, 11:35 am, concerned user <concerned
u...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I backed up my system on an external hard drive. After the backup was
> complete I found on the drive 6 large .dat files (2 gigabytes each), I
> imagine are picture files, plus the backup file. I use Picasa to manage my
> pictures. After restoring the system none of the pictures can be found. I
> tried to restore to a different location as well as restoring to a file. I
> also tried all the combinations of security checkpoints. No success so far.
> Is there any way to recover these pictures?
>
> Thanks!!

Depends...

What did you use to 'image' your drive. I suggest, using the same
program to 'restore image', understand?

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RedForeman

"concerned user" wrote
>I backed up my system on an external hard drive. After the backup was
> complete I found on the drive 6 large .dat files (2 gigabytes each), I
> imagine are picture files, plus the backup file. I use Picasa to manage my
> pictures. After restoring the system none of the pictures can be found. I
> tried to restore to a different location as well as restoring to a file. I
> also tried all the combinations of security checkpoints. No success so
> far.
> Is there any way to recover these pictures?

What did you use to backup the system? What program created the .dat files?
What did you use to restore the system?

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