Migrated user not showing up after migration assistant.

I had to reformat my hardrive on iMac. When I did I installed Mountain Lion instead of Lion which was on it previously. I migrated all files/user id from Time Machine using the Migration Assistant. But now I can't see my old user at login or in User's and Groups. The files are there but I can't access them without being able to login or at least give my new user permission.
How can I get to the old user?
I enabled Root User and there seems to be an "unknown user". After this an option to log into "other" user came up at log in, but my attempts at a password and name to log in failed. This "other" user and the "unknown user" are NOT showing in Users and Groups.
Please help!

We don't recommend to use Migration Assistant because it sometimes fails, like in this case.
If you don't want problems, go with the long way: erase the drive, reinstall OS X and restore the backup during Setup Assistant:
1. Hold Command and R keys while your Mac is starting to start up into Recovery, and open Disk Utility.
2. Select Macintosh HD in the sidebar (or your OS X partition), go to Erase tab and erase the drive.
3. Close Disk Utility and reinstall OS X.
4. When the installation finishes, Setup Assistant will show up, so follow its steps. It will ask you to restore data from a backup or another backup, so plug your Time Machine backup to the Mac (or a Mac) and follow the steps. The only user will contain the transferred data.
If you want more information about Setup Assistant > http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupLion.html

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