Installation of new HD, How to copy

I have a 150GB Hard drive that came with my T61. I have purchased a new 500 GB for my T61. I do have the Ultrabay HDD adapter.
What is the best and easiest way to copy the entire drive to the new drive and swap them out?
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Using Acronis is a very good idea, inserting the new drive in the Ultrabay is a bad idea and will probably result in failure and disappointment. You also do not need to format the drive before you clone to it.
If you plan to clone the drives by starting Acronis from within Windows, I suggest the following method;
1. Insert the new drive unformatted as the primary drive, hdd0. This is a must.
2. insert your original drive in the Ultrabay, hdd1
3. Enter BIOS, F1 at boot, and set the old drive, hdd1, as first boot device.
4. Exit saving BIOS changes and allow your system to boot.
5. Clone to the new drive.
6. When it's finished and rebooting you need to enter BIOS and not allow windows to boot.
7. When in BIOS re-set your boot preferences, save and exit.
8. On restarting, again go into BIOS and then shut the system down by holding the start button depressed for 5 seconds.
9. Remove the original drive from the Ultrabay and you should be able to boot to the new drive without any problems or glitches.
The same applies if booting from rescue media with the exception that the external optical drive will need to be set as first boot device in step 3.
Hope this helps and I haven't forgotten something.
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