Restore to factory or early backup?

Hi everyone! I'm trying to restore my computer to an earlier state and was wanting to get some advice. I deleted the factory restore files form my hard drive not long after getting my W520 in Dec 2011. I made a backup of the system right away upon first bootup to my external hard drive. I then moved those backup files (WindowsImageBackup, MediaID and GEOMACHINE) to a subfolder. Each time I made a backup I did this with the exception of my very last backup last night which is on the root of the drive. I've had issues with Windows not recognizing where the files are after trying to restore my system to the very first backup. I was thinking of trying Acronis or something else to see if that will work but I'm not sure what I'm doing to be frank. Should I just order a new factory restore disk from Lenovo or can I use the first backup I made, even though I moved the files? Also, if I restore to the first backup or to the factory original state will I be able to restore back to my very last backup from last night if I decide to? Thanks for your help! This backup thing doesn't seem like it should be that difficult but I guess there's more considerations that I anticipated.

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Message was edited by: Butterflie14

Butterflie14,
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Sorry, I can't really help with your current questions/problems... try Backup once was enough for me to go back to my regular ways...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
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SuperDuper...
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