Cloning HDDs

[iMerlin]

I see so many different ways to do this Im confused.

Im putting a bigger HDD into my MBP tonight and looking for a good plan for doing this.
My initial plan was...
1. Get drive
2. Install drive into MBP
3. Install SL fresh
4. Restore from Time Machine backup

Are there any reasons this wont work as I expect it to? Will my time machine backup restore all my apps as well as docs? Any reason I should do the CCC thing instead?

 

[Takashi]

Hm.. thanks for the advice.

 

[Timur]

Any reason I should do the CCC thing instead?

It's faster and thus more convenient. CCC/Superduper/Disk Utility do a 1:1 copy of your partition. So once you copied the files you can just swap the drive and get going.

 

[iMerlin]

I ended up doing this all with an external enclosure and Disk Utility. Plugged the new 500gb into the enclosure, on the restore tab I told DU to copy my original to my new. Took a few hours. Once completed I tested the 500gb by booting off the external. Once that worked I opened up the case, threw the new drive in, closed it up and booted... so easy.
I was very impressed with DU and for some reason felt more comfortable using DU instead of a 3rd party software like CCC or SD. Not sure why.

Thanks to this thread and advice all.