Not enough space for Time Machine on new disk

So my old 256 GB hard drive crashed and I bought a smaller SSD with just 128 GB. When I try to restore my Time Machine backup, obviously, it says that there is not enough space and won’t do anything. Is there any way to do a partial restore?

vctr09 wrote:
Well, hence my question whether a PARTIAL restore is possible.
What do you want to restore with the 'partial' restore.
Thanks
Pete

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So I opened the Disk Utility Program on the Mac and unluckily, the time capsule doesn't appear on the list. Why is that?
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