I made a backup of some files a year ago with True Image, and I want to restore some of them. I used Windows backup Utility, and it can explore .tib files, but it cant restore. I used True Image, but it doesn't show all the files in the backup. In fact, more than half the files are hidden/missing; I know they're there because they were there when I backed it up last year, and Windows Backup Utility even shows them. But for some reason True Image isnt displaying them all. Any help?

What version of True Image did you use to do the backup, and are you using the same version to do the restore? What type of backup is that, full backup or incremental?

This really seems strange, but might be that there's some error in the backup file, so True Image is trying to overcome that, while MS Backup is ignoring the error, just guessing

Ya..by right it should work everytime. I never encountered something like this. Where do you backup those files? Are you sure the storage you are using is still ok? I'm thinking of bad sectors that will corrupt your files or virus?