Hello!
Thank you for posting in HP support forums!
I am sorry about the issue you experience.
Can you elaborate few things:
- What kind of archive you have from your old WIn 7 installation ? System images ? Windows 7 file back up ? Manual data back up of files ? Back up of files made by HP Recovery process ?
- If you now have Win 8 and insert the discs with the back up into your computer and try to access it, what do you see ? Any error message disapled ? Can you make a picture (with phone/tablet) and upload it somewhere so that we see ?