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How to restore a single file from a backup image

AOMEI Post By AOMEI Updated October 19, 2022

In this article, well learn how to restore a single file from a backup image.

Restore a single file from a File image

Please follow the steps to do:

Step 1.   Click Restore on the left side of AOMEI Backupper Home page then you can restore via Select Task or Select Image File.

Restore

For select task to restore, please find and choose the File Backup task then click Next to switch to the Image Information page.

RestoreSelectTask

For select Image to restore, please find the file image of the task then choose it then click Open to switch to the Image Information page.

SelectImageRestore

Step 2. On the image Information page, please click the right-arrow icon to unfold the file directory in turn, next, youll see all these files that in the file image.

InformationPage1

InformationPage2

Step 3. Then you can tick the item youd like to restore, if youd like to restore a single folder from the file image, please tick the folder then click Next button.

SelectFolder

If youd like to restore a single file from the file image, please tick the file on the right-side then click the Next button.

SelectFile

Step 4. On the File Restore page, you can choose whether to "Restore to original location" or "Restore to a new location". click Start Restore to execute this task.

SelectTarget

And you may click here to know more details about File Restore.

Restore a single file from Disk/System/Partition image

For disk/system/partition image, if youd like to restore a file from it without restoring the entire image file, you may mount the image as an virtual disk via Explore Image then you can access it via Windows Explorer Next, you can copy a specific file  from the virtual disk then paste it to another location.

You can click Tools-> Explore Image to launch this feature.

ExploreImage

And you can click here to know more details about this operation