How do I restore a new hard drive from a time capsule backup?

Going tomorrow to pickup my iMac at the Apple store after a 1TB hard disk replacement. Time capsule backed up about 1 hr before the disk failure. What are the steps for doing this restoration properly? I'm very nervous about this process & I don't wanna start this process the wrong way. I have read horror stories in different threads about going at this the wrong way. Thanks in advance for any help

Since you will have a "new" iMac, If it were me, I would start right here....with info from top guru Pondini.
Time Machine -- Frequently Asked Questions
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
See # 19
Apple has some good info on restoration as well in Time Machine 101
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

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This did't help...but I have already restored it...I perservered on my own and found that the procedure was straightforward on the "Finder>Help" pages. I just searched for "Restore my entire system and that's what came up.
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So, I am in Oklahoma and my daughter is in Tennessee...
She has a Time Capsule where the Wi-fi base station quit working, but the hard drive may be OK.
She bought an Airport Express to use as a wi-fi router.
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It can be done but is very messy. That is assuming the TC is still functional which I kind of doubt.. the wifi is seldom the only thing that will die .. so whatever problems it has the wifi would be the least of it.
Anyway.. do a factory reset to get started.
The Factory Reset Gen1-4.
Unplug your TC. Hold in reset. and power the TC back on.. without releasing reset for about 10sec. When the status light flashes rapidly; release it.
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations.
No files are deleted on the hard disk.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
If the LED is not lit then the TC is dead, not just the wireless.
The setup for using the TC is explained in the bottom of this thread.
TC in a second local network.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4817218?tstart=30
The idea is to set the TC to provide router function.. and the computer plugged in by ethernet to as a second network.. but there are rules on how this is done which I have explained in that thread.
I notice that Mountain Lion deals better with order of network priority than Snow Leopard used to .. so it might not need to have manually set gateway and dns.. although I would still recommend it. It simply stops the second network causing issues.
It is much easier to simply purchase an external drive and plug that in.
It is cheaper, faster and more reliable than using the TC for TM anyway.
Plus a lot of the later machines no longer have ethernet ports.. and using dongles is far from neat.. although thunderbolt to ethernet is IMHO necessary accessory for anyone without ethernet.

Can the hard drive from the Time Capsule be used as USB drive only?

My Time Capsule "router" kept losing the wireless capabilty, so I purchased an Airport Express (with the dual-band router).
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But when I plug-in the Time Capsule, the light blinks yellow suggesting some configuration problem.
When connecting to a USB port, my iMac will not detect a new device.
Can the Time Capsule hard-drive be used separately from the router?

Can the hard drive from the Time Capsule be used as a USB drive only?
Sorry, but no. The Time Capsule is a network drive, so it must be connected to a network using an Ethernet or wireless connection. The USB port on the Time Capsule is there only to add additional storage capacity.
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Ok if disk utility was able to verify the drive I doubt there is any problem.. are you trying to open a TM backup??
You need to mount the sparsebundle then check the actual info inside the bundle.
Don't use disk warrior.. if the disk has verified then unless you deliberately deleted files there is nothing that is going to do.
Pondini has a lot of stuff about getting access to the sparsebundle.
http://pondini.org/TM/17.html
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My MacBook Pro 13 inch is 4 years old.
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Ok first you give the information that you have a 2008 iMac with Iphone operating system of IOS-7.. What is on the iMac. If you don't have OSX 10.6.8 You cant Install Mavericks. So tell us what you have and then we can help.
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And be sure to use a Snow Leopard Install disc, not a Leopard one.
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So I popped my girlfriends hard drive into my MBP and wanted to back her files up to Time Machine because her computer died (not hard drive, just the logic board). Will I be able to write make two separate time machine back ups with my hard drive and hers? I tried and it started to change the name of "My Macbook Pro" to "Her Macbook Pro" so I canceled the backup immediately and put my HD back in. Now it is verifying my backup, hopefully I didn't mess anything up.
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That would work, but the backups would all be in the same sparse bundle, which would make accessing the right one a bit tricky.
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If you store your "working" photo library on the Armor drive.......how do you plan to back up the "working" library?
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