How do I move my current hard drive OS and data to a new drive for internal installation?

I want to replace my Macbook Pro 500GB Hard Drive with a 2TB Hard Drive.  How do I make this new drive bootable and a replica of my current drive programs and data?   I also want to upgrade the OS.  Is it best to mirror the drive and then upgrade the OS, or can I put the new OS on the new drive and then clone the old drive onto it?

For starters I would do this one step at a time. It is far easier to check out where the problems are when they develop that way.
My first step would be to backup everything that you have now as a first step. Just in case of problems later.
Next, I would suggest to place the new 2TB disk drive in an enclosure and format it to Mac OS Extended and GUID partition mapping first.
Once that is done you can create a bootable clone on the 2TB disk drive using either CCC or SuperDuper.
Then test to be sure the 2TB is bootable.
Then move the 2TN disk drive into the Mac.
Once you have done that and it boots them you can upgrade the operating system.

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