I faithfully backed up my Hackintosh using Time Machine on my Acer Aspire AOA 150.

Now I'm trying to do a complete restore onto another Acer. I erased the drive, repartitioned it, formatted it. Boot into iDeneb 1.4 install disk, in the drop down menu I choose system restore from Time Machine, it shows me a text saying it'll restore everything and the drive I'm restoring to will be wiped... when I click "continue" it just seemingly hangs... it never goes to the next screen or does anything.

What am I doing wrong?

The drive I'm restoring to doesn't have to have MacOS already installed, does it?

Are you doing this after its installed Mac on your Partition?

Well no. Not yet. I was under the impression that I can use Time Machine and the iDeneb install DVD to completely restore the HDD.

Do I need MacOS installed first for Time Machine to work?