If your reinstallation fails, you may not be able to boot into Windows, you’ll need to restore your drive image to get your computer back up and running. Now’s the time to dust off the recovery disc that we made during backing up using PE Builder. Boot from this disc and then launch Drive Image XML. You can now opt to Restore and select the drive that you want to restore, and click Next. Browse to the backup image files and complete the wizard.
If you just need to restore individual files after a successful reinstallation, you should be able to launch Drive Image XML in Windows. You can use the program to recover individual files from your backup. Once launched, choose Browse. You then need to specify the image file that you saved before. This may take a little while to load, so be patient. Once it has loaded, you can browse through its contents in exactly the same way as if you were using Windows Explorer. When you find the file that you want to recover, right click it and choose Extract.
Even though Drive Image XML provides a restore option within the program, you can’t use it to restore your Windows partition from within Windows. You can use it to restore other partitions, but for any major recovery, you’ll need to use the Bart PE disc that you made before.
You can browse your drive image and restore individual files by selecting them and clicking Extract.
