Best way to move OS X image to larger hard drive?

I'm thinking of moving my OS X install from the original Macbook Pro 120 GB hard drive to a larger replacement hard drive. What's the best way to do this? Do I need imaging software and an external hard drive?

does it need to be formatted a certain way?
For a MacBook Pro, it will need to be partitioned with the GUID partition format or you won't be able to boot from it. Format in the standard Mac OS X Extended (Journaled).
Cloning is not the same as creating a single image file, right>
Correct, cloning is not the same as creating an image. You could, if you wanted, use CCC or Disk Utility to create a disk image of your current HD on the external hard drive, but since you still have to be able to boot from the external drive to be able to restore the disk image to the new internal drive, it's just an extra step over just cloning your current hard drive to the external since you'd have to install Mac OS X on the external drive so you could boot from it. But if you already have an external drive set up to be bootable and don't want to erase it (which you would do by cloning to it), then creating a disk image of your current internal drive, booting from the external drive, and then using Disk Utility to restore the image to the new internal hard drive is an option.
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