Time Machine unable to Restore to internal Hard Drive

My internal Hard Drive (formatted, Mac OS X Journaled, GUID Partition Table) doesn't show up on the list of Hard Drives to Restore to using "Restore System from Time Machine" program during the installation process.
I've formatted my internal drive, and verified it (and it seems to be working perfectly). But I can't get it to show up.
Any Ideas?

Reseting the computer fixed the problem. Happily restoring computer now.

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