Migrating Data via USB to External Drive?

A couple years ago, I upgrade my iBook G4 hard drive to a 100GB 7200 Seagate. I did this by taking it to CompUSA and paying them $29 for the service.
Now I want to pull that drive out and replace it with the original 30GB drive - I'll probably take it back to CompUSA to have this swap done.
My question is this - I have an External USB Enclosure (the 30GB is currently hanging out in there) ... can I clone the iBook's Data onto this drive, so that when CompUSA gets it - they can just do a hardware swap and not have to deal with the software?
Thanks!

Use an application such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
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