Hard Drive rename / re-purpose

I have a question: I had disconnected (physically) a firewire drive (LaCie) - not my TM Drive - from my iMac a couple of weeks ago, but TM is still showing that drive every time it does a backup. I have now connected that same HD again and renamed it, reformatted it and am using it for another purpose with different files on it. TM is now showing the original HD name with all the original files as well as the new HD name with the new files.
Here is the question: I want to delete all reference with TM to the old HD name and files because I don't need them anymore and they just take space on the TM drive. It seems that Apple build in some logic so that I can not delete them. Is there a work around, or will it break the complete TM logic?

When you say the drive is showing "in Time Machine", I assume you mean in the TM environment, and not anything to do with the TM preference pane?
Have you tried the "Delete All Backups" command? When Time Machine's running, select the drive (click on your computer in the sidebar so you can see volumes). Select the old drive, and then choose "Delete All Backups of ..." from the Action menu in the window's toolbar. This gets rid of all backups, but not the current version of something, under normal circumstances, but since you don't have a current version, this might do the trick.
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Welcome to Discussions - the fact that the S.M.A.R.T. status is not recognized and the flashing questions mark appear seem to indicate that your hard drive has failed. If you have access to TechToolPro or Disk Warrior, try to use them to check the drive status. This will likely not work, and I'm afraid your disk is toast.
You could try to remove the drive and put it in an external case and try to mount it on your MacBook, but I don't hold out much hope for that either. You can try using [Data Rescue|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/211375] to retrieve your data.
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