Can't Find Backup Restored to Hardrive

(1)
I tried to restore a Time Machine backup of the hard drive by starting with a "clean install" of Snow Leopard - booting up while holding down the 'c' key - because restoring the hard drive backup from Time Machine required copying more than 270,000 files and would take 3 hours.
But when I chose this method, I received an error message that there wasn't enough room on the hard drive.
Huh?
The hard drive had 151 GB of available space on a 160 GB hard drive and I was restoring a hard drive backup from Time Machine of 54 GB.
151 GB of free space is not enough to restore a backup of 54 GB in size?
Hence, I tried the following method of restoring the hard drive backup from Time Machine.
(2)
I restored a Hard Drive backup from time machine when I had Snow Leopard installed on the machine.
The hard drive memory was reduced by the size of the backup.
The hard drive showed the exact contents as before - not the restored backup - as I chose the "replacement" option when backing up.
Where is the restored hard drive backup?
I can't find it.
(3)
Tried again, this time I chose the option during backup that both the current hard drive content and the hard drive backup I was restoring were saved.
The hard drive memory was reduced again by the size of the backup.
I saw two hard drive titles on the Finder.
Macintosh HD
Macintosh HD (original).
I closed Finder inadvertently and then reopened it.
Only Macintosh HD was shown.
Where did Macintosh HD (original) go?
I can't find it.
Signed,
A perplexed Homo Sapien
Homo Sapien Mac OS X (10.6.1)

HiggsBoson wrote:
(1)
I tried to restore a Time Machine backup of the hard drive by starting with a "clean install" of Snow Leopard - booting up while holding down the 'c' key - because restoring the hard drive backup from Time Machine required copying more than 270,000 files and would take 3 hours.
I can't understand what you did. please give full details of what you did step-by-step.
But when I chose this method, I received an error message that there wasn't enough room on the hard drive.
Huh?
The hard drive had 151 GB of available space on a 160 GB hard drive and I was restoring a hard drive backup from Time Machine of 54 GB.
151 GB of free space is not enough to restore a backup of 54 GB in size?
Hence, I tried the following method of restoring the hard drive backup from Time Machine.
(2)
I restored a Hard Drive backup from time machine when I had Snow Leopard installed on the machine.
i can't understand that either. what exactly did you do?
The hard drive memory was reduced by the size of the backup.
The hard drive showed the exact contents as before - not the restored backup - as I chose the "replacement" option when backing up.
hah? there is no such option in TM backups.
Where is the restored hard drive backup?
I can't find it.
(3)
Tried again, this time I chose the option during backup that both the current hard drive content and the hard drive backup I was restoring were saved.
The hard drive memory was reduced again by the size of the backup.
I saw two hard drive titles on the Finder.
Macintosh HD
Macintosh HD (original).
I closed Finder inadvertently and then reopened it.
Only Macintosh HD was shown.
Where did Macintosh HD (original) go?
I can't find it.
Signed,
A perplexed Homo Sapien
Homo Sapien Mac OS X (10.6.1)
ok, I have *no idea* what you did but here are the options you have when restoring the whole system drive from Time machine.
1. full system restore. you boot from the install DVD and use the "restore system from backup" from the utilities menu. that wipes your hard drive and restores it to the state it was in at the backup time.
2. you do an erase and install of Snow leopard and then use migration assistant to migrate your data from the TM backup. you can do it during the original computer setup after the install is completed or later using migration assistant.
did you use any of these methods? if not, what did you do?

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