Backing up again after backup

I have my Macbook Pro backed up on Time Machine. After a disk failure I restored the whole system into a new (covered my extended care) disk drive.
I restored the latest version that was on TM. I then realized that some photos were not on my machine. My guess is that they got lost as my disk drive began to fail and so were not on the last backup.
What I want to do is step back to earlier backups to get the photo but TM won't let me.
I assume they earlier backups are still there - how do I get to them?
BTW TM also contains backups from two other Macs we have.

killcare wrote:
I have my Macbook Pro backed up on Time Machine. After a disk failure I restored the whole system into a new (covered my extended care) disk drive.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
I restored the latest version that was on TM.
How did you do the restore? Did you do the +Recover your entire system from TM+ procedure, via your Leopard Install disc? Or did you do an +Erase and Install, then Migrate from TM backups?+ Or something else?
I then realized that some photos were not on my machine. My guess is that they got lost as my disk drive began to fail and so were not on the last backup.
What I want to do is step back to earlier backups to get the photo but TM won't let me.
I assume they earlier backups are still there - how do I get to them?
What does that mean? Do you mean you only see the most recent backup when you +Enter Time Machine+ (the "Star Wars" display)? Or none? Or ??

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