Hard drive hooped. Acronis 11 can't read the TIB backup files...

My hard drive crashed last night. I have a full backup on an external drive.
However, since the hard drive is thrashed, I don't have access to Acronis Home 10 which is what I think I was running. I ran the Acronis recovery disk, but it throws the error that the TIB files are corrupt. The recovery disk is obviously from an earlier version than I was running for my current backups and therefore issues the error message.
I did buy the Home 11 upgrade but apparently it wasn't in use.
My current version was, if I recall correctly, Home 10, while the recovery is Home 9. So now I'm hooped. I think what I did was upgrade from 9 to 10 some time back, but there was nothing that made me aware that I also had to update the recovery disk.
How do I restore my backups? How do tell exactly what version was used to create the backup files? I can't locate any headers or other hints by looking at the TIB files. Also, assuming I was running Home 10, where can I get a copy that I can use to restore my system?
I appreciate your help,
Thanks
Fred

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Thanks very much for the thoughtful reply.
Actually I am talking about Home 2009, Home 2010 and Home 2011. I believe the version running on the crashed drive is Home 2010.
Does that help?
Fred
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Fred,
Yes, it does. Those versions have ISO files available for download from your Acronis account. Download the one(s) you need and create the CD(s). Windows 7 will burn ISO files directly. Otherwise, use any ISO capable burning program.
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