What is the best way to upgrade a hard drive on my macbook?

How do I get the information on my current internal hard-drive onto another internal hard-drive?
Thanks in advance for any and all information.

You can use SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner to accomplish that.
You'd need an external disk or mount your old internal in an enclosure.
-mj
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