Time machine : Doesn't have enough space on the restore drive.

I've a very weird situation. My time machine backup has two partitions: one is of 95 GB (where I have only one back up of my Mac Lion) and the other of 65 GB is unformatted (total space on the drive is 160 GB). Now when I get to the point of Disk Utility's Restore from time machine backups (through Ctrl + R) and select my new internal HDD (of 128 G), I get the yellow warning at the bottom that 'there isn't sufficient space on this drive'. I'm really baffled as to what could be the root cause of this. Is Time machine accounting for the entire hard drive (of 160 GB) for restore? Or is it doing some tricks behind the scene by which it needs more space (greater than 128 - 95 GB) than the backup? If so, how much is this space?
Really confused here.
Thanks in advance!

@Linc: The internal drive has a GUID partition table and the required partition in the correct format, yes. It actually already has a brand new installation of Lion (could that be interfering?).
Also, this may be useful: My original hard drive was 320 GB and this new one is 128 GB. I'm suspecting this thread has what I need: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15920201#15920201. What do you think?
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