Turn off backups while restoring!

I had a 500 GB disk that just went bad, but since all the data was backed up on another drive by Time Machine, I decided to restore to a new drive. This probably would have worked just fine, but I neglected to turn off backups, and this created a problem.
I was restoring about 335 GB of data onto the new drive (which I had given the same name as the old drive) and Time Machine seemed to be working just fine, giving an estimate of about 5 hours for the copy to complete.
However, when I checked the system this morning, the copy had aborted, with the reason being that the files no longer existed on the TM drive.
What I think happened was this. TM kept on backing up files from the new drive, which resulted in its running out of space on the TM drive. So it automatically deleted old backups, including the one that I was restoring from.
I wish that TM had been smart enough to avoid this problem, although I can see how I could have avoided it myself by turning off the backup function while doing the restore, or by having it warn me before deleting backups. Lesson learned.
Happily, the files all seem to be intact and I'm restoring them now from the only backup that still exists, the one that TM made yesterday!

Sorry, not realy that familiar with Windows :-(
I am starting to get a bit confused myself.
Could you be a bit more specific, what option you choose "Automatic Backup" during installation. What backup are you refering to?
Did you make a screenshot of the installation proces, so that you can include this?
Rob

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