Replaced HD, would like to keep Old Time Machine

Hi,
I run Lion on an older 24" iMac, and recently replaced the HD, due to failure. After restoring via time-machine, I would like to resume using time machine again.
The problem that I have is that there is no additional space on the back-up drive, and I'm not quite ready to re-format and start over (just in case the new HD fails, and I really wish for something older than what will be the "first" new back-up.
So, my question: Is is possible to delete most of the older back-ups on the time machine drive, say except for the last week or two? Just enough in order to free up enough space to start backing up the new drive?
Thanks

You should be able to continue backing-up to the same set of backups.
The full restore should have left a "trail" in the SystemMigration.Log so Time Machine will "associate" the new drive with the old backups.
If it didn't, and Time Machine says it's going to back up the whole drive again, you may be able to do that manually, per #B6 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (if the backups were not made over a network).
If not, yes, you can delete old backups, but it's rather tedious and time consuming. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #12.

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