Canvio DTD21B - how to restore FIles and Folders on a different system

Hi I'm helping my friend.  We backed up her old laptop's hard drive  to a new Canvio 1Texternal hard drive, but backed up the whole system.  The system is now defunct.  It ran Win 7. This is three weeks later and we have a new 17" Toshiba laptop running WIN 8.1. I can't seem to find a way to restore just her FIles and Folders to the new system.  I do not want to overwrite the Win 8.1 operating system so do not want to do a full restore. Her Files and FOlders are important to her so I would appreciate your adice as to how to restore just that data. I can't find anything in HELP or on this forum that addresses this issue.
THank you.

I am really surprised that no one has the answer to this question. But, thanks to the 170 of you who read my plea for direciton

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