Time Machine and Updating.....Please advise...

I need to do 2 updates.......I need to upgrade my external hard drive for Time Machine, and I need to upgrade to Mountain Lion, from Snow Leopard ---
I have a 750GB hard drive on my MBP, I'll upgrade my external hard drive for backups to a 1TB .... Couple of questions... since I need to upgrade OS as well, , should I upgrade OS first, then install my new HDD for Time Machine and do full backup?  OR the opposite, ,  do a full backup w/ new HDD then upgrade to Mountain LIon??
Also, , since I'll have extra room , , should I handle that new drive any particular way.....?? i.e.  partitioning, etc??
Advice appreciated.......
Thanks

I think you are worrying too much about little details.
How much of the existing 750GB is used? Is that internal or the external drive?
As long as you have a full backup before you start you should be fine.. but I would download and install superduper.. the free version can do a disk image.. that is very useful when things go wrong.. as well as your time machine backups.
Then I would also strongly recommend clean install of Mountain Lion.. just google for the method.. it is not hard.. the result is much better than trying to do upgrade installs.
Once you have upgraded / new install.. then do a backup.. to whatever disk has enough space.. but new.. not over the old backup. You can partition the external drive if you need to.. so you can have different backups.

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