Backups missing

Hi first post
I have a white macbook 2008 model, running leopard. ive been making backups via time machine for a while now, backing up all my old photos and the such.
my brother recently got a macbook pro 2010 model, running snow leopard. i let him use the same external hard drive to back up his computer.
Now when i went into the backups folder on the hard drive, all i can find is his computers backups and not mine. Has his overwritten my old backups? Or is this not possible, and maybe he is not telling the whole truth when asked what happened to my stuff? If there is any way to get stuff back, that would be good, as i was kind of relying on getting some stuff off this hard drive. Thanks

huebag wrote:
Now when i went into the backups folder on the hard drive, all i can find is his computers backups and not mine.
Do you mean via the Finder?
If so, maybe not. On Snow Leopard only, when you select a disk for Time Machine to back up to, that already has another Mac's backups on it, you get this prompt:
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This happens most often when you get a new Mac, and want to continue the same "set" of backups. See #B5 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for details.
If he clicked Reuse, the backups are now identified as belonging to his Mac. The first backup of it was a full one, so Time Machine may have had to delete a lot of (your) old backups to make room. And if he's made more backups since then, more old ones may have been deleted.
Use the +*Browse . . .+* option, per #E2 in Troubleshooting, to view the backups. See if there are any dates in the Timeline from before you lent him the drive. If so, you should be able to restore from them.

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