Just installed a new 1tb sata drive into an old g5. Now what is the best practice to use it?

Hey all
My old g5s memory was full so installed a new internal drive.  I have so far partitioned and named it so it is on the desktop because I saw that in a youtube vid. I'm wondering if that was the best thing to do to use it and if so how should I go about using it since my other drive is full and much smaller at 80gb.
Thanks for any help =]

Best way to get an exact bootable copy of your old drive to the new one is with Carbon Copy Cloner...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Then boot from the new bigger HDD by setting it in System Preferences>Startup Disk.
BTW, what size Partitions did you use? OSX loves lots & lots of free Space.

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