Hard drive upgrade, how?  Best way?

I'm interested in upgrading my internal hard drive on my MacBook.
I made the mistake of only getting the 120 hard drive, not taking into account the fact that I would have a chunk of that allocated to the Windows machine that is created by Parallels.
So, I would like to go to a 200 or 250GB hard drive now. The issue that concerns me is how to go about doing the actual change over without loosing anything on my current one, as well as how I would go about transferring Parallels?
I do have 250GB external hard drive, so I can transfer all of what I have on the current internal to that. I'm wondering if there is a way to do the thing that I did when I first got this one, which is transfer ALL of my settings (system settings and all) and files from the old computer to this one.
Can I do this with a new hard drive?
Would I need to reinstall and start over with parallels or would I be able to transfer that onto the hard drive?

Hi,
I would use something like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and make a full bootable backup of the internal HD to your external HD.
Be aware that this will delete everything that is now on the external HD.
For safety reboot your Mac while holding down the Option/alt-key and choose the external to boot from.
Verify that everything is okay and if so replace the internal HD with the new one.
Again boot from the external HD and run SD or CCC again to copy all from the external to the internal HD.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Have Fun
Stefan

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