Help needed can't get my time machine back ups to work.

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I've now been trying for over a week to get my machine up and running. I've cleaned the machine and rebooted with a fresh system several times and works OK for a short while but then hangs.

I think I had a virus on the machine and it eventually crashed and refused to work. I've tried disk utility to erase the disc and tried a clean OS as well as trying to restore from a back up none of which give me back a stable machine.

I tried mackeeper to remove viruses from time machine with my macbook but it won't let me alter any files.

I then tried on a clean install to copy the last back up so I could remove the virus and then reinstall but it won't copy from time machine to the iMac drive.

I have also tried earlier back ups (back to June) I usually get about a day out of it (after doing a fresh virus check) before it eventually hangs.

Am I having hardware problems the iMac is just over a year old. Is there anything else I can try I've tried safe mode, clearing the drive before a fresh OS install from the net?

I don't want to lose all my old data.

I managed to save some to the iMac but things like all my mailboxes
 
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There is no way to "remove virus", mackeeper is almost malware it's so bad.

You should do a clean install from the DVDs and copy just your documents back in from your backups.
 
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Thanks, the main problem isn't so much the documents as I have most of these saved on a desktop folder that I managed to get over to the laptop more things like my email history as I can't find a way of importing that from time machine. also where are photos from iPhoto stored on time machine?
 

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