In plain english, how do I replace my hard drive in my OSX Lion equipped macbook pro?

Hi, I have a late 2009 13" macbook pro. It is running OSX lion 10.7.5. It only has a 250GB hard drive, and I want to upgrade it to a 7200 rpm 750gb hard drive. (yes I know, SSD blah blah blah, when those become cheaper, I'll think about it)
I have a brand new 7200 rpm 750gb western digital notebook hard drive, on it's way here. I also have a hard drive enclosure on it's way as well.
Can someone walk me through, step by step, how to complete the process of copying everything over to my new hard drive? I can tackle the actual drive install, that is no problem.
Since I have OSX Lion, I have to copy the recovery partition over first right? How is that actually accomplished?

With either of the 2 programs I mentioned. Yes OS X. You Clone the complete drive, OS, Programs and all files on the drive, to an external drive and or a separate partition on an external drive. You can then Boot the computer off that external drive. You have to have an external, or partition on the external, big enough to fit whatever is on your drive now and then some extra space. Carbon Copy Cloner will allow you to Clone the Recovery HD partition over to the external also. Not sure if SuperDuper does this as I haven't used either of them in awhile.
monstertodd wrote:
Awesome, I appreciate the response. When you say "clone my current install", you're talking about OSX right? So how do I actually clone the current install?
The drive I purchased is a WD "black" scorpion drive, not blue or green.

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