Following installation of OSX 10.8, the program cannot recognize the disk containing my Time Machine back-up

I made a Time Machine backup of my hard disk. before erasing the latter and installing Mac OS X 10.8. But now, the program is unable to recognize the disk containing my backup, and therefore I cannot use the Migration Assistant to recover my data. Is there a solution to this problem?
However, Migration Assistant was able to recognize my backup disk, before it was unlocked, but not after...
Thanks

nothing here helped me. there is obviously a bug in 10.8.2. Due to other issues, I wanted to install a clean copy (not upgraded) of 10.8.2.
On a MBP running 10.8.2, I made a full Time Machine backup.
I erased the internal HD on the laptop.
I installed 10.8.2 from the App Store installer
When the installer rebooted, the install process continues, BUT
During installation, when asked to select a disc for restore, the installer spins but never sees the time machine backup.
I can see this disc and drag files from it when plugged into another computer (or when booting the MBP from an external HD) but the OS X installer process never recognizes my Time Machine hard drive and never progresses past the select disk for restore process (the disk NEVER appears).
The disc (FW) works fine plugged into other computers and worked fine before reinstalling 10.8.2. on a fully formatted hard drive.
Time Machine is WORTHLESS.
This advice from Apple is useless: "Open Time Machine preferences and reselect your backup disk. If you erased your backup disk and began having trouble, reselecting it may fix the problem." - how do you do this when you're restoring data to an erased HD?!?!?!

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