Time Machine recovery for a new HD, will it work?

[SamIchi]

Since my first attempt to upgrade to a bigger HD failed (wouldn't let me login) I plan on upgrading my current 120GB HD to Leopard, and then use Time Machine to back up on my External. Then I will put in the new 250GB HD, install Leopard on that also and then recover using time machine.

My question is whether or not this would work. Would I run into any problems? I makes perfect sense to me.

 

[treymiller]

Please keep us posted...

Your logic seems sound. I would like to know how it works out, because I thought about taking this same route myself one of these days...

 

[elbirth]

That's an interesting idea. I, too, would be interested in how this turns out. Part of the functionality is to restore from a failed drive, so I don't see why it wouldn't work unless the two drives have to be identical in size. After looking at the very minimalistic options for Time Machine, however, I'm curious how doing a full system restore is done anyway... Does anyone know?