How do I use the back-up discs I created before restoring, to recover my personal files, etc.??

I own a Compaq Presario CQ56 109WM Notebook PC that I recently ran System Recovery on to restore it to the "Out-Of-Box State," due to a virus or crash or something that would no longer allow the computer to boot to Windows. Beforehand I backed up my personal files, pics, music, preferences, etc. on a set of 5 DVD+R discs. Now the computer seems to be running fine to my knowledge, however I have no idea how to use these discs. When I finally got them to read in my disc drive, I found a .exe file on the first disc for the Recovery Manager, which I opened obviously, and it was supposed to create a folder on my desktop and open all my stuff. However while doing the first disc I got like an error message that said "Recovery Manager could not restore the file 10.wim. Do you want to continue?" I clicked yes, and it gave me the same message for files 11-19.wim, 2.wim, and 20-27.wim. I have no idea what this all means. Also after it was done, I do have a folder on my desktop, which has 3 other folders inside, and inside of those is a ton of other crazy folders and files, which I'm sure my stuff is in SOMEWHERE but the question is, HOW DO I ACCESS AND RESTORE IT ALL TO WHERE AND HOW IT WAS??? LOL PLEASE HELP!!
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HP Backup backs up many folders that are useless, most of your personal files should be in a folder with your old user name in the "Users" folder. This Backup app is also known to be a pain.
As for why you got the error, which sounds like all files were not extracted, that could be a faulty DVD, something caused a bad write to DVD,etc.
If you don't see a 'Users' folder, I would probably start by deleting the folder created on Desktop and make a new one either on desktop or in My Documents. Next copy files from each DVD to that new folder. From the folder try running the .EXE file again to see if any better results.
One other suggestion-go into Control Panel, Folder Options and check to be sure 'Hidden files' are shown.
If all else fails, install 7Zip and try it to extract the .WIM files.
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