Restoring files from Time Machine to external drive

I keep my iPhoto library -- aning may other files -- on an external drive (iomega 1 TB). I use Time Machine (Time Capsule) for my back-ups of iphoto - and all my files on this drive. The external drive is failing. I have bought an new external drive and wish to restore my iPhoto library to this new drive. The steps for restoring from Time Machine require me to click on the iPhoto library and then enter time machine. I cannot do this as the folder is now unreadable on the drive and I do not wish to restore it to this old drive in any event.
I have accessed the time machine drive and can see the iphoto back up is there.
What is my next step?
Robert

You are correct Linc. I am probably not being clear enough. The dead drive is disconnected and I am only using the new external drive, the iMac and the Time Machine backup drive which is connected to the iMac via ethernet.
I am trying to what you have suggested and appears all over the internet as the correct method. Unfortuntely, it is just not working. I will take snapshots of the screens to illustrate. (not sure how to take sceenshots in Time Machine.)
While in finder I have the sidebar. I choose my iMac and choose enter Time Machine (Home Drive is the new external drive):
Just before I enter -- a window opens that says "connecting to back-up volume":
Then another window opens -- on it's own -- that is the Time Machine Back-up and it does not have the sidebar:
As I slide into Time Machine another window opens -- on its own -- that contains the elements of my sidebar:
As show below in another screen grab:
And now I am in Time Machine with that window -- i have even tried to click on the sidebar window which lies in the background just prior to sliding into Time Machine but I still get this window):
No side bar. But, I can choose any back-up window behind it it -- going back in time -- and get windows that looks like this:
Via the bottom status bar I can manuever to the correct back-up date and time i want and get this window:
The Iomega HDD contains the back-up of iPhoto Library (and other files) thart I wish to restore. I should be able to open this folder. Choose the files to restore and voila. But when I choose the foloder. Nothing. It freezes -- except i can still manuever the mouse. No spinning wheel. Nothing. I cannot exit Time Machine etc. I end up shutting down using the power button.
BTW. Here is the wiondow I get when I click on the Time Machine drive in the sidebar:
I can choose the iPhoto Library and I dragged and dropped to the new drive. There was an error the first try (after 4 hours...) but the second try worked. I have duplicated/backed-up the library getting ready to experiment with an new iPhoto upgrade.
Is this the same library?
But any thoughts on what happened during the Time Machine process is appreciated.
Robert

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