Thanks Gila, I had no idea that external drive restore was an option..I would like to give it a shot

Here is a screenshot of my restore options. Do I check...

Thanks Ed. I would like to try the option you suggested in trying to restore files in different drives..Can you explain a bit further? When i restore, I see five...

thanks for your reply. How do i restore to an external drive? I thought the restore location would need to have SQL server installed, no?