Curious

I have a laptop and a desktop both backed up to a network drive using L1C.
My desktop totally died and I need to get files from its backup to my
laptop.
I am unable to do this following the instructions apparently since the
backups are not installed as part of a OneCareCircle.
I have tried changing the name of my laptop to that of my desktop but that
did not work at all.
I certainly never anticipated this problem in advance. Is there a solution?