Restore External HDD from TM Backup

My External drive with my iPhoto and iTunes libraries died. The drive fell down from a table, and since then it is not recognized -- I thought these kind of drives had shock protection.
Fortunately, I have a TM backup. The question is how to best restore the TM backup. If I give it the same name, will TM recognize it as the same drive, so that it doesn't do a full backup next time, after restore? It is quite a huge amount of data. Judging from some older discusssions, it seems the answer is no, but I would like to check again.

Tonight I found most of the solution I needed:
-Create a new administrator account on your machine.
-Run the Migration Assistant.
-It should identify your previous hard drive's name, and that's what you migrate from to your new account.
-If your new account and your old account (the one on your old machine), have the same name, you cannot migrate to an account with the same name. You should get a prompt to change the account name in the three options that are given.
-I gave the account being migrated TO a new name, and in about 30 minutes everything came over.
The remaining problem is that some of my items did not make it and I cannot find those folders in my Time Machine.
Also, iTunes is looking like it needs to be rebuilt for the most part. I have an iTunes Match account. That auto-imported all of my playlists but my movies have to be re-imported into iTunes for it to recognize them again.
Oh yea...my backup of the iTunes library list is nowhere to be found. I think it's in and among those items that are yet to be found.

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