Can I run a Mountain Lion Time Machine Back up if I have a Snow Leopord boot up disc?

HI, I have a new hard drive in my Mac after my old hard drive crashed.
The only boot up disk I have is a Snow Leaoprd (which came with the computer). However, I had since upgraded to Mountain Lion. My most recent Time Machine Back ups were all on in Mountain Lion.
My question....If I use the Snow Leopard boot disc, will I be able to restore the Mountain Lion back up through TIme Machine? Or do I need a Mountain Lion boot disc?
Thanks!!

Restart with the Command-R keys held down to get to the Mountain Lion recovery volume that you can use to reinstall or reload from backup, or if your drive has just been replaced and does not have this, then if your system was made in 2011 or later then it likely has an internet-recovery option to load these tools, which can be started by booting with Option-Command-R held down.
Alternatively you can create your own external recovery drive using Apple's Recovery Disk Assistant tool (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433) to use if your system does not support Internet Recovery and you need to access these tools. To boot to this external drive once created, boot with the drive attached and the Option key held down, and then select it from the boot menu that appears.

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