Windows 10: windows 8 backup help

Evening all,I need some help with a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD7500BPVT hard drive. I created a back up with what I think was windows 8 to an external hard drive which created 3 files called sources, EFI and reagent. I then done a fresh install and gave it to my nephew to use. I have since tried to access these files 2 years later to get our wedding and honeymoon photos.... this is where my problem has started.I don't know what to do with these files, I can see there is 19Gb of information but cant access the information.I have tried some deep scan software to access the photos but every

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Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

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Using network hard drive for backup

It depends what sort of backup you want to do. If you're happy just backing up regular files, then there are a bazillion (really, that many!) different bits of freeware to do that. There is a good list here:

Download Back Up Tools for Windows - MajorGeeks

and pretty much all of them can do network backups. Some even have fancy options like encryption. Really, the most useful thing is just being able to schedule them and know they ran OK.

You may also want to make a system image backup too, and you'll find that software in the very same list.

I don't have Windows 8 as yet, so I'm afraid I can't suggest any for that platform. Personally, I use Clonezilla for image backups.