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JimmieJongers
By JimmieJongers
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So today I accidentally formatted my hardrive, but no fear I have a backup hardrive . So I re installed windows 8 and everything, so how do I get all my files back ect from my drive. I want my pc to be exactly like it was before the format. Please help I am in major need of assistance and I am ready to loose it, thanks guys.

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So today I accidentally formatted my hardrive, but no fear I have a backup hardrive . So I re installed windows 8 and everything, so how do I get all my files back ect from my drive. I want my pc to be exactly like it was before the format. Please help I am in major need of assistance and I am ready to loose it, thanks guys.

it will just use the backup and put what ever you had. Backups don't essiantaly save your desktop layout or settings.
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Copy the files back and make the programs you want to use target the original drive.

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A backup won't carry over settings, at least most of the time. A formatted drive is easy to recover as long as nothing was written over the old data, but since you installed Win8 over it I find it very unlikely that you will be able to get the files back. Only right after you format a drive can the files be recovered. Linus has a video about it here: 

 

As for using the backup just copy the files over. Not likely that you will be able to get your settings back.

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 And how would I do this? sorry to pressure you lad.

How did you back up the files? Did a utility just copy the files directly and they remain in their original form?

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If you have backups from /users/documents and users/appdata, then you can have most settings back. But there are software that only save those to install folder.

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