Migration assistant doesn't see time machine backup

[KKh1972]

I am trying to reinstall clean Snow Leopard on my iMac. I made a partition on my iMac internal HD(on the same physical drive as a system) for Time machine and ran backup.
After that I started up with Snow Leopard DVD, used Disk utility to clean old system partition and installed Snow Leopard.
But when I run Mingration assistant, it doesn't see Time Machine disk to restore. I see TM partitioning in finder and it's look OK, but migration assistant doesn't recognize it.
How I could force migration assitant to recognize backup? Or how I could migrate my setting from this backup?

 

[spinnerlys]

Time Machine is meant to be on an external drive, not on the same physical internal HDD, as that defeats the purpose of TM, in case of an HDD failure.

I don't know a way though to restore from an internal TM backup such as yours. Have you tried looking for a solution via MRoogle?

 

[KKh1972]

I used TM only to transfer setting. It provides an option to create backup on th same physical drive. But Migration Assistant doesn't recognize it. I have looked through MRoogle, but haven't found solution how to force MA recognize this backup. I see only one solution - to crate account manualy and after that restore user folders through Time Machine

 

[Fishrrman]

If you had used either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to create your backup, you wouldn't be having these problems.

I suggest you consider them in future, and relegate TM to the trash heap.

- John