Best way of cloning and changing to a new internal harddrive

Hello all,
I have bought a 500gb seagate momentus 7200 harddrive that I want to upgrade my macbookpro with.
Is the best solution to first clone the internal drive to this new drive with superduper, and then do the actually change, or is there another better way to do this??
The machine is a 4.1, from March 2008 with a current 200gb internal drive.

kenbrox,
kenbrox wrote:
But wouldn't this be a bit risky if the time machine restore doesn't work. I remind you that I'm not doing the actual change myself due to warranty issues...
I have restored from a Time Machine backup many, many times. It works like a charm. However, it is never a good idea to place all one's eggs in one basket. Can I assume that you already have an external enclosure in which to place either the old or the new drive? If you run into problems restoring from Time Machine, you'll always have Disk Utility and its "Restore" function. Your fallback would be to place the old drive in the enclosure, boot to the Leopard DVD, connect the enclosure/old drive, then use Disk Utility's Restore function to "clone" the old drive to the new. Still, I would recommend using Time Machine, with the cloning option held in reserve.
Does a Time Machine backup hold all program installs etc also?
Provided you have chosen to backup application and system files (the default), YES! Performing a full restore from a Time Machine backup restores...... everything. There are only two "byproducts" of performing a full restore:
1) Your startup volume must be re-indexed by Spotlight when you boot to the restored installation the first time. This takes a while, and uses a lot of CPU while it is in progress.
2) Mail will take a minute or so to "re-import" your mailbox folders the first time it is run after performing the restore. If I am not mistaken, this is only to re-index.
Scott

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