Time Machine Restore on New Internal Hard Drive

Hi, i just installed a new 500GB western digital scorpion blue hard drive as my original 60gb was full. I did a time machine back up, swapped the drives, an started up using my original install disk (not the snow leopard upgrade disk). I formatted the new drive to OS X journalling, and then went into utilities, chose restore system from back up, and am working my way through it. i keep getting to the point where you need to select a destination, and it stops at searching for disks. I can select my time machine back up, but it doesn't seem to find the new drive to restore to.
Am i missing any steps, or could there be something else keeping me from completing the restore?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Kathleen

How is your new drive partitioned and formatted? See the following:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

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