Cloning hard drive in a G5 powermac

Hi all. I have a G5 2.0 ghz, Powermac. It has a 250 gb internal hard drive. I want to replace it with a 500 gb new hard drive and bin the 250 gb one as it might have a problem. Do I have to install the Leopard seperately on the new disk when I clone the disk either using the disk utility or a cloning software. If there are any bad patches, would these be copied onto the new disc. Please help. Thanks

Hi Fortunate Mac;
If you clone the 250 GB drive to the 500 GB mounted in the second slot of your G5. You should be able to boot from the clone. If you see the same problem then the corrupt files were cloned and you will need to install again from the install media. If the clone doesn't have the problem then there was not corrupt files so you can use it.
Allan

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