How to Restore Contents of Old Drive onto New Drive

Dear all,
I recently managed to change my ibook's 30GB HD to a 160GB - successfully, BUT:
before that, I saved a copy or clone wit carbon copy cloner onto an external Firewire HD, unfortunately without the 'bootable' option. After reinstalling OS X 10.4. via DVD on the upgraded iBook, i tried booting from the external drive which obviously did not work. So I am now looking for other ways to get my old data back. Clicking the sparseimage on the external drive builds an image of my old HD on the new desktop.
Here's the question:
How do I get the contents of the old drive into my new Home Folder? What about the apps, will it be possible to transfer them as well?
Own ideas: Disk Utility? Migration assistant? Buying a case for the old drive to use it as firewire and restore from it?
Already done and given up on: Copying the old home folder to the users folder using a second admin account and then trying to swap shortnames - didn't work the way I was told, but I'd retry with more support, if someones sure that it works (cornelius - with a former help from Neil - tried to help me with that trick, but I guess he forgot the changes between 10.3. and later).
I would absolutely appreciate help with this as I really need the contents of my old drive. Not just to look AT, but INSIDE :-`
Thanx!!
Message was edited by: Keywan Bayegan

Hi Kenichi,
I will certainly follow these instructions when Im back home from work.
Kenichi Watanabe wrote:
If the external drive is what you want to restore onto the internal drive, you can do it with Disk Utility.
The external drive IS what I want to restore, but it bears only the sparse image, that needs to be clicked to expand to the real disk image. I could build the disk image on the desktop and then copy it back to the external drive? Is that okay? Should I erase the sparse image AFTER THAT just for the reason not to have two identical images?
You need to start up from your Mac OS X Installation Disk. Start up while holding down the C key.
After you get to the Installer, run Disk Utility from the menu. Confirm you can see both the internal drive and the external drive in the sidebar.
If the internal drive is not yet formatted, select the internal drive and go to the Partition tab to format it as one partition with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format type.
Is it possible to format the internal drive even if it IS already formatted? I'm just asking because by fussing around with different user acounts I have got a lot of useless stuff on the disk. By the way, would you zero out - and how many times?
Go to the Restore tab. From the sidebar, drag the icon of the disk for the external disk (not the drive but the disk indented below the drive) to the field called Source. Drag the icon for the internal disk (again not the drive) to Destination. Double check to make sure you have the Source and Destination correct (not reversed). If you want it to be an exact restore, check the Erase Destination box. Click the Restore button. Note: This will erase what is on the internal drive now.
Ok, Kenichi, if you could help me with these few questions I'd be very happy, then I would follow your intructions.
Thanks,
Keywan

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