Opening my backup from my old PC

G'day & welcome to the forums!

Its a bit difficult to answer your question on the information provided...

1. What backups are you talking about? From a previous Mac? From a Windows PC? From your current Mac?
2. Where are the backups located? (Drive of previous computer, DVD, external drive, network drive).
3. What program did you use to create the backups? (manual copy, specialist backup program, Time Machine?)

So you want to open your backed up files on your new macbook? Where are these files backed up? Did you use a particular application to back them up?

If all you want to do is to open one or more files that are on your back up drive, the procedure is exactly the same as opening a file on your main drive, viz. double click on the drive icon, then navigate through the folders to the file you need. Then double click to open it. Or you can drag and drop the file to your desk top (or anywhere else).

If however, by "access the files I've backed up" you mean replace all or (some of) the original files with the versions on your back up drive, the specific procedure depends on the back up program you used. Typically, the process is called "Restore", and what you can do and how you do it, depends on your back up program.

Try this link it should show you how to do what your trying

Switch 101
http://www.apple.com/switch101

As far as I know, you will need to extract your BKF files on the PC first, or run Windows on the Mac (or a Windows emulator) to extract the files from the BKF container.

The format is obsolete now, but you can get a free MS Utility to read them (running on Windows). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTBackup

If you really want to do it on your Mac, and you don't have a spare Windows XP installer, you could always try running the MS utility in the [Crossover|http://www.codeweavers.com] environment (this is a Windows emulator that runs on the Mac.

You can open a Zip archive or a straight directory copy. There are probably other backups that can be opened. The method you chose is not one of them.

The second paragraph of my previous post ("If however, by "access the files I've backed up" ...) does not apply to your situation.

As I wrote previously, the only way that I can find to open a BKF archive is to use a PC application. The format is not supported natively by the Mac.

However, you might be able to run the restore application on your Mac by installing CrossOver, and then downloading the restore application from Mircrosoft.

Cheers,

Rodney