Need easiest way to transfer my old hard drive into a new purchased one

I recently upgraded my 80GB internal HD with a 120GB. I just need to transfer everything I have onto my new one. Mac certified stores charge around 95$/hour so no way am I going to do that. However, I'm not really knowledgeable when it comes to backing up/cloning HD. My friend has a 160GB Western Digital external so I plan on using that. I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner but got confused when it asked me what kind of drive I wanted it (ex: read only). I heard TimeMachine can copy your whole hard drive also?

Kyle Kim wrote:
sorry for sounding stupid, but what's an "enclosure?" All I have is my friends 160GB Western Digital external HD
An enclosure is a box that allows a drive to communicate via the USB and/or FireWire interface. The external drive you mentioned is just an "enclosure" around a commodity hard drive. I did read that you said you had access to an external hard drive, but I just sort of buzzed it with what I remember from the top of my head. That being said, let me revise (this is how I actually did it when I installed my Hitachi Travelstar 7K200):
1) Run Disk Utility from your current drive, and format your new external drive(GUID Partition Map).
2) Install Carbon Copy Cloner on your current drive. Clone your current drive to the external drive.
3) Shut down and try and boot from the external drive (hold option during power up?). Verify it can boot.
4) Take the original drive from the MacBook and replace it with the new drive.
5) Boot up from the external drive.
6) Run Disk Utility and format your new internal drive in GUID Partition Map.
7) Clone the contents of your external drive to your new internal drive, then shut down.
8) Start up your machine and make sure it boots from your new internal drive.
9) Wait while Spotlight reindexes the new drive. It'll be loud while the CPU heats up and the fan cranks up.
If you're using an external drive, you'll need to perform the cloning process twice.

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