HDD clone on a new HDD

Hi, my 500Mhz ibook's HDD is coming up with a red failing (SMART). If I make a disc image of this HDD and park it on our iMac, then replace the old HDD with a new higher capacity HDD, can I then boot the new disc from the disc image or am I completely off the ball?
Does this disc image (saved as xxx.dmg) constitute a clone of the old drive?
I understand that you can boot from the original discs that came with the ibook - but they have lower versions OSX and other software that I dont have the discs for (I bought the ibook 2nd hand and it didn't come with discs or warranty - I am obtaining the ibook discs on ebay).
Does this mean the other software and OS 10.4.3 will be lost?
Hoping you can help me.

This is a bit of a sticky wicket, Andrew. If you have software which you don't have a license for on a second-hand iBook, you are, technically, using it illegally. Have you noticed on eBay that people selling their computers with bunches of software on it for which they do not intend to include the actual software discs, tell you that it is on the hard drive as a "trial version" and it is your responsibility to delete it if you don't want to buy the software? That is to get around copyright infringement laws.
So telling you how to clone your hard drive so you can continue to use it would be outside of Apple's Terms of Use here. (They are software developers, too, after all.)
When you bought the iBook, you bought the right to use the software that originally came on the iBook and any software on it that is on CD's the seller decided to include with the purchase. You need to buy 10.4 for use on the iBook, since that was not included in your purchase. Sorry.
P.S. If you intend to run 10.3 or 10.4 on the iBook, opt for the largest replacement hard drive you can afford and things will run more smoothly for you.

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Hi, and a warm welcome to the forums!
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No, no, feel free to start a new Topic anytime, it's almost always better.
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