How easy is it to restore from a Time Machine backup?

I have my system partitioned right now so that Windows has most the space but I might want to change it so they have equal amounts meaning I would have to reinstall both OS's. I wanted to know if I make a Time Machine backup will it restore my whole Mac partition with apps, settings, and documents just like they were?

I've never used partitions, so I don't know if it would be different for you, but I have backed up my harddrive with Time Machine and used it to restore a new bigger harddrive and everything was exactly the same - same icons on desktop, same search history etc, everything working exactly the same just more space.

Did you have to use the migration assistant?

I don't think so, it was really easy, just plugged in the Time Machine harddrive to Mac with new harddrive in, held down a key when starting up (can't remember what) and follow the on screen instructions - "Restore from Time Machine backup". I did it not long ago with Lion.

So you used the recovery thing on Macs. Problem is I have a hackintosh so I don't have that recovery thing. I'll figure it out though, thanks.

You don't need to restore each OS to resize the partitions. Put Gparted on a disk and you can resize the partition without removing the data: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Dude. It's Apple. It's easy.

It doesn't seem like that would work because one partition is ntfs (windows) the other is Mac (journaled) completely different.

I did it with my Windows 7, Mac OS X Lion, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Arch Linux setup.

All of those are on one drive.

Awesome then thanks! I'll try it soon