I've had to RMA a faulty laptop recently and backed up everything apart from 1 file that I forgot about.
The file will still exist when I get my laptop back as I took a full C: drive image using the Windows7 'create system image' backup. So I should be able to restore the folder WindowsImageBackup
assuming I get the same laptop spec back!
Can I get access to the folder in the image before my laptop is returned? Eg is it possible to recover the image to a virtual machine using VMware Player or are there any alternative ways of doing this?