Hi,

You can move files just by plugging the remote hard drive into your new windows 7 PC. I am assuming it is a USB drive.

It will show up as a new drive letter in the computer.

By files, I mean photos, word documents, etc...

You CANNOT restore PROGRAMS from a remote hard drive.

By programs, I mean Microsoft Office, antivirus, email programs, games, etc.

These need to be reinstalled and cannot be copied from a backup drive....

Best of success--

Carl

Ok,

.bkf files are files created by a program called ntbackup. This program is the backup program included in xp. It wraps the files all together into a lump and they have to be unwrapped before you can get to them individually.


you should be able to download it here. It doesnt say windows 7 specifically, but it says vista/2008 which are very much the same

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7DA725E2-8B69-4C65-AFA3-2A53107D54A7&displaylang=en

Here is a tutorial/explanation of sorts. Ntbackup works sort of like winzip, it clumps all the files together.

http://www.slickit.ca/2009/07/running-nt-backup-under-windows-7.html

once it is installed, you should be able to right click on the .bkf file and select open with, and select ntbackup.

or start ntbackup and browse to the .bkf file and open it.

then extract the files from the .bkf file on to your win7 pc

Thanks

Carl