Help! Maverick still won't install.

MacBook Pro 2013. Have had Maverick downloaded for months, can get to screen that says "Select disk to download to", shows hard drive icon with >3GB available. Won't let me select disk or advance. When clicking icon, says "this disk is used for timemachine back up" which is not true, I use an external hard drive for this. Driving me bananas.

Delete the folder named "Backups.backupdb" at the top level of the volume on which you're trying to install.

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