Backup started from scratch

I backed up mu computer via Time Capsue to a USB hard drive connected directly to my computer. I moved that drive to my Time Capsule and told Time Machine to conect to the same drive. However Time Machine is starting over with the backup. It's not simply updating it.
Can I "connect" the original backup to the backup already on the drive?
FWIW, I'm running Lion, and the reason I'm connecting the drive ot the Time Capsule is because the disk in the Time Capsule has recently failed.

Backups are stored differently for a drive that is connected directly to a computer compared to a drive that is connected over a network (the Time Capsule or a drive attached to the Time Capsule).
When a USB or FireWire drive is connected directly to a computer, backups are stored in a regular folder named Backups.backupdb.
Backups on the Time Capsule drive or a drive attached to the USB port on the Time Capsule are stored in a special container called a sparsebundle file.
These two types of files are not interchangeable. When you moved the drive from your computer to the Time Capsule, Time Machine saw it as a new drive, so it started a new set of backups.
If you plan to leave the drive connected permanently to your Time Capsule, you could remove the Backups.backupdb file to save space by temporarily attaching the drive directly to the computer and then deleting the folder using the Finder.
Do not disturb the xxxxxx.sparsebundle file. When you re-connect the drive to the Time Capsule, backups will continue normally, although you may need to tell Time Machine how to find the drive again since it was temporarily moved to a new location.

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