How to restore a Time Machine backup on an OSX Hard Drive

Author: HBT
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Hopefully you have a backup to restore! This iMac had a corrupted hard drive. Rather than try to find the offending file, I decided to wipe the drive and restore the OSX with all the files.

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1. What if I only want to restore certain files not the entire time machine back up. I saved all my files and data to a 2 terabyte external hard drive so i could un-install Yosemite. i now have mavericks installed and want to put certain files back, can this be done without re-installing yosemite ? 
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2. I viewed your utube video that tells you how to restore from time machine on a mack. I am having trouble. My mac is a desktop purchased snow leopard in 1-2010. It has Macintosh HD 958.86 GB available space and 998.84 GB space total. I have an external drive that I am trying to restore information from. My computer crashed a few weeks ago and I ended up putting in my original disc  to resonate my applications. After I did the install my computer was virtually like new with a new operating system "Yosemite". I have no photos or documents left. 
   
   Eventually I figured out how to open the utilities and opened disc utility and even found "Restore" (although I am not sure I could again). I went into my external drive) and it showed that I have 1.37 TB free and 2TB of maximum capacity. 
   
   The utility wanted me to drag a selection from the left side bar in order to locate my passport backup to the location I selected. The problem is, it said it would remove the one I selected (Macintosh HD) and use passport instead. Of course I was concerned about doing this because I don't want to play games with whatever information might still be on my mac. 
   
   Help!!
3. I'm getting an error whiel doing this.
4. this vid. really helped me man, i didnt know to erase the new hardrive i put in my mac pro, worked like a champ, thanx man