How to enter time machine after a fresh install??

Hi I just reinstalled my system after I got many errors and many clutter on my hard drive. I made a full TM backup before formatting the hard drive.
Now I am in the new fresh system and my time machine hard drive is displayed but just as an external hard drive (displayed in yellow instead of green) and I can not enter the time machine.
What did I do wrong? I don't want to restore everything the way it was before but just certain settings and items. So basically I want to  use the timemachine interface and select the items I want to restore instead of using the migration assistant where I have to restore full categories.....
How can I do this????
Oh by the way, I am using OSX Mavericks.

You have to enable Time Machine in System Preferences > Time Machine. Also, now Time Machine detects your Mac OS X copy as one installed on a new Mac, so it won't allow you to restore files from the backups through your Time Machine interface.
To restore your files manually with Time Machine, see > http://pondini.org/TM/E3.html

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