What's the best way to make a 2nd internal drive be the main one?

I just got a 1 TB drive for my MacPro. The old one was only 250mb and full. I want to make the original one the "extra" drive and the new one the main one, with a system that boots up and everthing the same as the old drive, only with 3/4 empty space.
I searched on the web and it said to use Disk Utilities to "restore" a source disk to a destination disk, which I'm doing now. Then when it's done, I go into System Preferences and make the new drive the start up one. If all that works, I can safely erase the old drive and use it for other things. Does this sound right? (I ask because I once tried doing something like this before, only to find I couldn't boot up from the new drive because I hadn't officially installed the system on it, only copied it.)
Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to respond. I truly appreciate it!

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