if the backup was full with all index files it should have worked. I used the MDBC to transfer 3 6500 hard drive partitions to 3 sd cards when I first got the 7k and still have the original cards unaltered (I started reworking for 7k on copied cards). There is no fundamental difference with 5k hard drive backups, I actually also had some 3k hard drive backups. The only thing that would need alteration was some file re-naming for the cutoff to 16 characters. My point about indexes is because quite apart from the multiple ttx files containing the original names for each style there was an overall index file(s) created by the total backup that the MDBC program needed for correct operation. I can't remember what it/they were called, it's too long ago I'm afraid.