Opening a scanned document

I have Windows 7 Home Basic, and an HP deskjet 3-in-1 printer F2280. I have the latest Adobe Reader X1.
All have been working fine until this week.
Now I cannot open a pdf file which I have created by scanning on my printer, and this now applies to all documents that I have previously created and saved. I can however right click on any of these files and select print to get a hard copy, and I can also open the files with Adobe Photoshop.
Other pdf documents which I have downloaded from the internet are not affected and can still be opened in Adobe Reader as before.
I have tried running 'repair the program' but this has not made any difference. I have also ensured that the printer software is up to date.
I now do not know what to do - can anyone help please?

Hi there
Reader 11.0
When I double click on the pdf file that I want to open. the reader
opens but I get a blank, grey window.
I have tried opening the reader and then using menu: open>select file...
same result.
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