Backup and Restore to Newly Partitioned Hard Drive

[Peterbart]

Thanks for the quick response Dave. I took your advice and read the relevant section, but I am still a bit confused. At present, I only have one partition on my hard drive. I want to back up the entire drive to an external, partition the internal hard drive, and then restore the whole mess to distinct partitions. Specifically, how do I get OSX into the booting partition, Applications into the Applications partition, and the User data into the User partitions, since they weren't in those partitions before the backup?

Thanks in advance