Using target mode and g4 to restore my time machine on my imac? help

I have a imac 27" intel 10.6 that became stuck on grey screen, Tried everything.
problem dont have original cd install cd snow Leopard 10.6...
so I used target mode from a g4 10.4 mac and erased data on my imac
then went into the disk utility and draged the time machine drive (which was greyed out) into the section that says drive you wish to restore.
I could not run the scan disk image because the time machine drive was not avaliable.
so then i draged my new imac drive to the location to be restored part, hit restore and it says its copying
its been a day and a half and only copied 50g out of 280g
can i safley stop this?
is this even going to work?
Can disk utility restore my time machine back onto my reformatted hfs ext drive on my imac?
Imac 27", Mac OS X (10.6.4)

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CSmith615 wrote:
Okay, so I have mentioned this twice, in both post that I have written, the hard drive is not showing in the disk utilities,
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Graham Giles wrote:
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