Restoring from backup on macbook pro--26 hr 43 min and increasing

I'm restoring my macbook pro from my time machine backup; everything seemed to be going fine, until the final "transferring your information" stage. I am now at the very end of the process, with the progress bar almost complete--the program says it's "Transferring your Applications Folder", but the expected time to completion has been jumping up for over an hour now. it started at somewhere around 8 minutes to completion, and now is at 31 hours and 40 minutes (up from 26-43 just in the time it's taken me to write this.
I don't think this thing is ever going to finish, at this rate. What's the best course of action?

I figured this one out myself! I copied the backup to my MacBook, then found the right folder in the backup to drag into my new iTunes folder. It just took a couple of minutes and I was up and running.

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I recently made a Bootcamp partition with Windows 7 (which incidentally went absolutely fine). In that partition I wanted to split it for some certain files, but on doing so I appear to have completely tanked my hard drive - I've pretty much wiped the entire thing. I read afterwards that creating new partitions within Windows is a big no no Bootcamp wise, and this wasn't something I knew about before. Lesson learnt!
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