Mountain lion will not install - messages says the hard drive is for time machine

basically i have gone thru the install process
I get to screen that asks which drive to install
I have 3 drives that show up
Mac-ssd
bootcamp
mac storage drive
it will not let me pick any drive(have not tried bootcamp)
it says that this drive is being used by time machine
lesnorvell

Your Mac has a directory named Backups.backupdb located on it. If you have good time machine backups somewhere else, you can delete the directory and ML will allow you to select the drive.

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