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Unable to recover back up information saved using Acronis True Image Home 2010

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My computer was infected with a virus and was unable to connect to the internet or run my McAfee program so my only option was to completely erase my hard drive and try to reinstall everything. Unfortionately when I put the Acronis Bootable Rescue Media CD in during boot up mode and the Acronis Menu came up I was not able to recover what was backed up. I saved everything on an external hard drive. My backup file is not seen. The only thing I see on my backup drive is titled AcronisMedia Bootable Rescue.iso, takes up 78,656 KB and a few other files that I had copied over manually. When running the recovery program and clicking on the ISO file there was nothing there to recover. Turning off my firewall when looking at the hard drive contents does not reveal anything else. Is there anything I can do or have I lost everything I that was backed up?

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Could be you are looking for things on the wrong hdisk. Don't go by drive letters; use volume names or disk IDs instead.

Also, you should be able to use windows explorer to naviagte to the directory where yu backed up to and see the backup files (with thextensin "tib"). Tibs aren't hidden files, so if they exist, they will show in explorer.

btw, the iso file is the bootcd image that one can burn to cd to make a bootCD.