Restore from an external hard drive on the same hard drive (uncompressed)

I have an old backup of my files on external 500 GB MYBook I want to restore the hard drive even on the external 500 GB MyBook.  There are a lot of pictures and family videos.  How can I do this without restore on my internal hard drive which has very little space.

Hello

1. what type of backup is? What application did you use to create this backup?
2. What is the extension of this backup file? Is this backup a single file?
2 have you tried to copy the files and images directly on the hard drive?
 
If these files are simply saved in the hard disk, you can simply copy and paste the files on the disk. If it's a backup file provide the information identified above to help you further.

I hope hear from you soon!

Thank you, and in what concerns:
Shekhar S - Microsoft technical support.

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