Restoring Windows XP Files on Windows 7 Home Premium

A few days ago I bought a new computer with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. After the initial setup, I tried to restore my backup from my old Windows XP system. The file was a BKF file. When I looked for the backup and restore program to read the BKF file and restore things, I found out that the file cannot read BKF. I cannot believe this! What the heck ? This is absolute non-sense!

The trick (you have to have a trick to read your OWN files on Windows 7 even though you paid $$$ for ....) anyways the trick is to copy ntbackup.exe program from another machine:

The files you'll need to copy are

ntbackup.chm
ntbackup.exe
ntbackup.hlp
ntmsapi.dll
vssapi.dll

the chm and hlp are nice to have and I don't think they are required.

copy anywhere on your new system and just start ntbackup.exe you may get a warning saying that the program cannot connect to the Removable Storage service which you can ignore and proceed to read your BKF files.

What were they thinking?