Recovery from Explore Image
I recently was forced to reinstall my Windows 11 machine. I have daily image backups of my machine and need to restore some files from those images. I am not looking to restore the entire backup only the My Documents folder. Using the Explore Image function, I can see the user folder, but I am unable to browse it or copy it to my machine. Windows throws up the "You must be an Administrator" to view the user files. I am an admin on the machine. Q-Dir runs into the same issue. I cannot modify the permissions or change owner on the image as it's read-only. How do I recover my documents from the image?
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Account is an administrator on the machine
You might need to restore the backup to an empty drive, then check and copy files you needed. When you do the restore, it will write data to the destination, and windows will re-assign the permission of the current account.