Transferred Time Machine Files, But Can't Access Them

I used SuperDuper to transfer my old Time Machine folder from one hard drive to a larger hard drive. Everything seemed to work fine. After I started it up again, Time Machine went to work on backing up my machine since I have also just updated to Mavericks. However, now that everything is done, Time Machine only lets me look back until the moment today that I turned Time Machine back on with the new hard drive. The drive still shows that it's full of the space the old back up was occupying, but it's not being accessed by my current Time Machine setup.
Any ideas as to what I did or what I can do? I still have the old Time Machine folder on the smaller hard drive, so I can retry this again somehow.

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