Recovery with automatic back up

A few days ago, my computer would not load windows. I was told by a couple different computer techs that I needed to reformat the hard drive due to a virus. I have windows vista on a gateway computer that was bought at best buy a year and a half ago. I used the recovery with automatic back up to save my docs and pics. Now my question is how do I get my pics and docs from the recovery drive? I am at a loss here.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thats so much of a description its hard to start someplace to explain to you.
Are you saying you ran the recovery partition on your computer to load it to a factory default? If thats the case, its a total destruction of the drive and restored to the time you first opened it out of the box, that means everything gets deleted on the target drive.
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Basics ............................................................................... ....................................8
Two types of action: Immediate and Programmed ...........................................................8
What can be backed up or synchronized? ......................................................................8
Bootable copy of your startup disk ............................................................................... ..8
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Backup placement ............................................................................... ........................9
Restoring ............................................................................... .....................................9
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Multiple configurations ............................................................................... ................10
Backup Strategies ............................................................................... .................11
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Back up your backup! ............................................................................... .................12
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Manual Restoration from the Macintosh Desktop ..........................................................16
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Using Immediate Copy to restore........................................................................ .........16
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