I need help cloning a new hard drive

Hey Guys,
I just bought a new WD 500gb Scorpio Black Hard Drive. I also bought a hard drive enclosure. I'm trying to clone the new hard drive so I can replace it with the old one. I just have a few questions since this is my first time doing anything to my Macbook Pro. Do I have to create a new image to the desktop in order to start cloning the hard drive using Carbon Copy Cloner? I don't know if I'm doing it right, the disk utility progress says creating new image and reading whole disk (unknown partition). Am I going in the right direction? I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you.

Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external new drive. Source means the internal old drive.
Remove the new drive from the enclosure and replace the old drive in the computer with it.

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