Help restoring backup to new partition

Vista crashed on me the other day, and I used the recovery option to try
to fix the errors. Instead, a new partition was created somehow. My C
drive is now the smaller drive and E has been designated for program
installations.
I had made a backup just a week ago, but when I try to restore/install
that backup I get a message that the file location is not valid. I
presume that because it was all mapped to the old partition, I can't use
this backup at all. However, there are a few files I don't have backups
on and before I delete this I'd like to double check to see if there
might be any way to recover the data on the backup.
Appreciate any help
thanks


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billtvt