I had my OS reinstalled on to my Macbook Pro. I did back it up on to a WD HD via Time Machine prior. Now I don't know how to restore from my back up.

I had my OS reinstalled on to my Macbook Pro due to having issues turning it on prior. I did back up my system on to a WD external hard drive via the Time Machine prior to the reinstallation. But now that it is reinstalled on to my laptop and its turning on normally, I want to be able to restore to the back up that I have on my external HD from prior to the reinstallation of my OS.

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Use Migration Assistant to restore the backup. Connect the external drive with this backup, open Migration Assistant (it's in /Applications/Utilities) and follow the steps. It will create a new user with the migrated files.
If you want more information, see > http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html

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