I have lost three computers and a server to electrical storm, I do however have a remaining backup drive from the server that is readable, on this drive there is contents of business files , excel , word, records of clients, etc..., I have reinstalled the server software it is now backing up the computers. I know the name of the prior hardware ( computers and have renamed them the same) the server recognizes the data files from before but will not restore it to the new computers as it recognizes the difference in the hardware. It says that it "does not recognize the operating system in the restoring computer and stops the restore at 81 %. So I have the files as data, and am wondering if there is something I can do to make the server recognize them as the old boxes, if so how, or if for nothing else, is the a program that can read these files and take the data files and restore them to the individual files the were to restore excel , word, etc.. The process to repair this is on going.. I will say that the server sees the files as an archive and its partial as if it wasn't a full backup, but the one moment that one of the burned computers did work , I attempted to get anything I could back and it showed me the files though partial and tried a restore until the computer it was restoring stopped and never again restarted, nor were its drives readable or operable . ( the system drive worked for ten minutes and failed on error, the others could not even be seen, I haves sent the other drives out for forensic and no cigar, they are ded dead....so my little hope is on this one set of files which contents contain a 250g of partials that would help a lot to recover,. There was no back up software just the windows server auto remote back up process, for the client boxes, is all. This hs been a really bad loss in most cases but any reuse of any data is a huge gain, due to our business,
Thanks.