Time Machine recovery on a new computer

I have an old Intel Core Duo Mac Book Pro that was running OS 10.6.8 and a newer iMac running 10.7.4.  Both were being backed up using Time Machine onto a Time Capsule.  My Mac Book Pro has had some serious problems and I would like to recover the back up from the MacBook Pro onto a Partition on the iMac.  The MacBook Pro had a  250GB hard drive (200GB used for OSX). I partitioned the iMac to give a clean 250 GB partition. How do  I recover the MacBook Pro Data onto the iMac partition?
Thanks

Pondini has some info..
http://pondini.org/TM/16.html
Read all the links ..or Q14-17 on restore.. there are a number of methods.

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