Moving data from one hard drive to another?

Two very easy ways.

Use Carbon Copy Cloner, it makes an exact copy of the drive and it will look the exact same as before.

Or use a Time Machine backup. Do a backup to an external drive, when you replace the mac drive with the new one, hold Command + R and select the "Restore from Time Machine Backup" from the utility.

That will copy all your applications, files, etc.

 

Hard drive enclosure.

They are USB and can be had for about 15$

I used mine for that and end up using it a lot more now as I can use my old hard drive to backup files onto

 

A SATA to USB Adapter is even cheaper.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=m570.l3201&_nkw=Sata+to+usb&_sacat=0