Chaning my MacBooks HDD - whats the best way to swap data over?

[loztheguru]

Im upgrading my macbooks tiny 60gb HDD as Im fed up of constantly running out of space.

One of the main reasons for doing this is I want more space in my Windows partition. I know this isnt possible once its been set by bootcamp, but how would it work if I was upgrading the HDD?

I have an external drive which I backup regularly with time machine - can I use this to basically carbon copy my current configuration? And if so, what happens to the windows partition under these circumstances?

EDIT: Could a friendly passing Mod edit the typo in the title for me?

 

[techound1]

Use carbon copy cloner to take the contents of your current hard drive and pop them onto a larger one.

 

[Eidorian]

Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper! your OS X data over to the new hard drive.

 

[techound1]

Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper! your OS X data over to the new hard drive.

Isn't superduper selective about which files it copies (in other words, not a true clone)?

 

[LSUtigers03]

When you install OSX on the new HD it will ask you if you want to copy over the contents of another HD so just connect your old HD then and it will copy over everything from the old HD to the new HD.

 

[rablat]

Boot from the OSX disks and you will see in the menu bar utilities.
With your external attached, choose "restore from backup".

That's what I did when I upgrade my new Macbook from 120GB To 320GB.
Worked like a charm.