Best Way To Clone Old HD?

I have a Quicksilver 2002 which has an internal 40G HD. I just purchased a SATA PCI card and a 250G SATA HD.
I would like to replace the old HD with the new 250G but would like to clone the entire drive before replacing.
I have read some of the discussions about SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner but both appear to only work with an external FW drive. I have a large external USB drive...
Is Silver Keeper a good alternative or is there something else I should be looking at?
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks
Jeff

Hello Again! The boards are having problems. When I paste something that has a space in it it pastes as being blank so I'll try again. Tom
Kappy's Steps to Produce a bootable clone
Prep external FW drive:
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
8. Select the destination drive on the Desktop and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom in the Ownership and Permissions section be sure the box labeled "Ignore Permissions on this Volume" is unchecked. Verify the settings for Ownership and Permissions as follows: Owner=system with read/write; Group=admin with read/write; Other with read-only. If they are not correct then reset them.
For added precaution you can boot into safe mode before doing the clone.

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