Backup/Restore Issues - Please Help

I decided to update my software last night and it bricked my iPhone. After several attempts I was finally able to get it back to the factory default installation.
Because of the multiple unsuccessful attempts, my restore list has been over-written by bad backups. Now I can't find a way to recover my good backup. The available restore list only shows backups from these bad backups and one from over a year ago. Did itunes delete all of my backups between now and then? Is it possible to recover them? I'm using a PC and I checked the backup folder in my profile. It is only showing 8 folders (there are also only 8 in the itunes restore list). Is there anything else I can do? What happened to all of my good backups?
Please help. Thanks

Is there any activity which is physically opening this file or some process that is reading this file in edit mode?
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A friend of mine is a couple of states away from home and her iPhone broke. The Apple Store is replacing it where she is, but of course her backup is here in this state. She will be on a trip for two weeks, and would really love her phone (which is also her iPod) to actually work.
I know she can log into iTunes, create her account and do a backup of the old phone, but if my memory is right, it will NOT backup her music, right? How then can she get the music to also backup so she can get the phone back to normal before continuing on her trip?
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Maybe the backup file is corrupt. If so I don't think you will be able to restore it.
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Windows 7 image restore issues (Please help!!!!)

I backed up my Windows 7 partition to an external hard drive, deleted my Boot Camp partition, and made a new, bigger one. I then booted from the Windows 7 install DVD and went to restore the image to the drive, but it refuses to do so without wiping the entire disk. Someone please help me; I really need Windows back, and really don't want to go through the pain of reinstalling!
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I have a ipod 5th gen and i changed my password because everyone knew it. I had forgotten it and now it is fully disabled. I can not get it online anymore and i have tried everything to get it restored. Please help as I am really worried

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Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
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Hi All,
I'm new here hope you all can help me please?
here's my story I used to have an Powerbook G4 -17inch model. I sold it and backed up the data using time machine. however I think I did a terrible mistake coping the PowerBook backup folder to external hard drive (Western Digital)without using superduper or other clone timemachine backup solutions.
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RaulJ wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new here hope you all can help me please?
here's my story I used to have an Powerbook G4 -17inch model. I sold it and backed up the data using time machine. however I think I did a terrible mistake coping the PowerBook backup folder to external hard drive (Western Digital)without using superduper or other clone timemachine backup solutions.
That's a bit odd -- when you did the backups, where did you have Time Machine put them (before you copied them to the external drive)?
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I thought everything were smoothly copying the backup file to the external HD. Now after 1 and half bought my second Apple Laptop (Macbook unibody White 13.3) last night was trying to restore my old data (powerbook g4) data using - MAC OS X 10.6 INSTALLER DVD/ restore from time machine/ however the menu box doesn't recognize my external hard drive??? maybe I did something wrong?
You can't do a full system restore in this case anyway; that only works on the same or virtually identical Mac.
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To restore from a time machine backup use Utility under the Leopard Install Disc and select a Time Machine Backup to restore. NOT Migration Assistant after Install and not the function after the install process where you choose the backup with your name,apps et. ( basically Migration assistant again but in leopard). You must use Utility from the Menu bar after the Leopard install disc restores.
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I hope this thread helps anyone if they have a similar problem.
Once again thanks to Erik for all the detailed help!!!!
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