How can I get my Time Machine to recognize restored backup?

I had Time Machine backing up to a Maxtor disk for two years. Then the disk stopped working properly and was no longer accessable nor did its icon show up on the screen. With the help of Data Rescue II, I fortunately was able to access the disk and restore my time machine backup files to a newer external disk drive.
But when I try to select the new disk and run time machine, time machine wants to start a whole new backup and won't recognize the old set of backup files. The old backup files appear to be perfectly restored so I don't know why the Time Machine program is not recognizing them. Can anyone help?

They may look normal, but if Time Machine doesn't recognize them, they aren't.
Time Machine backups aren't like what you're used to. See the Hard Links section of How Time Machine works its Magic.
Unless everything was copied exactly, and the hard links re-connected to the files on the new drive, the result is not usuable by Time Machine.
Your best bet is to let Time Machine start fresh on a different, empty drive; keep the recoverd one "on the shelf" for a while. If necessary, you should be able to drag & drop anything you need from it to your internal HD.

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