Time Machine does not show after installing Lion?!

I upgraded to Lion and now my Time Machine does not work. When I connect the disk it starts and then shuts down. It does not show neither on desktop or on Time Machine. Any ideas. I hate the thought of reinstalling Snow Leopard but...
Thank you in advance
Matej

No reason to reinstall Snow Leopard.
What's shown on the Time Machine Preferences window for Latest Backup? If it shows "Error" in red, see #C2 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
If not, a clue may be lurking in your logs. Use the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to display the backup messages from your logs. Locate the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages here.

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My Apple store changed my hard disk and the logic board along with it.
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Hello K.V.
(I'm having to come back to this when I get a minute at the moment)
Many thanks for your suggestions so far. Several things have occured:
Firstly I did what you instructed in your last post, that seem to let me go on without any further errors - so I then when back to my desktop - dismounted The BIG BACKUP and restarted the whole mac, remounting the The BIG BACKUP. I went to the 'Back Up Now' commend to test it and it failed, sayind it could not find the file or directory.
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simon-evanss-imac:~ simonevans$ cd /Volumes/"The BIG BACKUP"/Backups.backupdb
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simon-evanss-imac:Backups.backupdb simonevans$ xattr -p com.apple.backupd.BackupMachineAddress"simon-evanss-imac"
simon-evanss-imac:Backups.backupdb simonevans$ cd ..
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total 104
drwxr-xr-x@ 16 simonevans staff 612 20 Jul 22:44 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 21 Jul 21:13 ..
-r-------- 1 simonevans staff 16 24 Apr 23:56 .001f5beb34e5
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drwx------ 3 simonevans staff 102 24 Apr 23:55 .Spotlight-V100
d-wx-wx-wt 3 simonevans staff 102 19 Jul 09:25 .Trashes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 0 25 Apr 09:23 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------ 8 simonevans staff 272 21 Jul 19:32 .fseventsd
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root staff 102 20 Jul 22:56 Backups.backupdb
-rw-r--r--@ 1 simonevans staff 1024 1 Jan 1970 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r--@ 1 simonevans staff 2 1 Jan 1970 Desktop DF
-rw-r--r--@ 1 simonevans staff 0 1 Jan 1970 Icon?
drwxr-xr-x 5 simonevans staff 170 24 Apr 23:55 MANUALS
drwxr-xr-x 5 simonevans staff 170 24 Apr 23:55 SOFTWARE
simon-evanss-imac:The BIG BACKUP simonevans$ sudo fsaclctl -p /Volumes/"The BIG BACKUP"
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simon-evanss-imac:The BIG BACKUP simonevans$ sudo mv .001b639a9935 .001f5beb34e5mv: .001b639a9935: No such file or directory
simon-evanss-imac:The BIG BACKUP simonevans$ sudo mv .001b639a9935 .001cb37264bc
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mv: rename .001b639a9935 to .001cb37264bc: No such file or directory
simon-evanss-imac:The BIG BACKUP simonevans$ sudo mv .001b639a9935 .001f5beb34e5
Password:
mv: .001b639a9935: No such file or directory
simon-evanss-imac:The BIG BACKUP simonevans$
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To be honest now, I guess my prime concern is if I've made any damaging changes to things I don't understand or not - and I think it may be best if I accept the Time Machine starting afresh from square one by clearing the external drive and re-directing TM to it. I could live with this I guess, so long as it worked.
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Many thanks
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13.06.12 07:58:45,338 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
13.06.12 07:58:45,338 com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
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13.06.12 07:58:49,102 com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
13.06.12 07:58:49,661 com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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