Purchased a new hard drive

I recently backed up my old hard drive because it was getting too full...... purchased a new hard drive and I now need to get my music, photos, address book info into the new drve.
How do I do this???
Mariela

I'm not quite sure what you're doing.
Did you get a new internal hard drive, and want to restore everything to it?
Or did you get a new external drive that you want to move some data to, so you can delete it from your internal HD to save space?
Just in case, what are the sizes involved -- how much data is now on your internal HD, how large is the new external?
Since you've posted in the Time Machine forum, I'm assuming you backed-up your internal HD with Time Machine. Where are the backups -- on a separate external HD, or the new one?
Please update your profile -- it shows you as being on 10.5.2, but you've posted in the Snow Leopard forum.

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