Need Step-by-Step Instructions for second hard drive just installed

Hi. I am almost out of space on the hard drive that came with my G4 (I am using 114.49 of the 120 with Tiger) so I bought and installed in the second bay a 300 gb Maxtor. That' s all I have done so far. It shows up in the system profile and as a drive in the disk utility although when I restart the computer the message "the disk you inserted is not readable by this computer!" I assume this is because it is empty, not formatted or anything.
I have an external bootable clone (firewire) of my original hard drive as back up.
What I would like to do is use the original install/restore disks that came with it, the one with classic support as well, and install it on the new 300 drive. Then I would like to bring it up to date with Tiger and use my back up external drive to make the new 300 gb drive the main one I use for this computer. As for the other 120 gb one, the original one, could I then erase it and install Leopard on it so I can get to know that OS system over time?
Do I need to partition the new drive to do any of this?
What do I do and in what order? My head is spinning over this and I am frozen at this point...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi-
First thing you need to do is to format the drive with Disk Utility. In Disk Utility/Erase, select your drive, select Mac OS Extended-Journaled, name your drive, select "Install OS 9 drivers" and click erase. That's all. Now it's ready to use.
For a 300GB drive I see no need to partition.
You can use your original install discs to install your OS, and then reinstall all your applications, and then transfer all your files, or, you could use a cloning utility such as SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner (I use and recommend SuperDuper!) and clone your current hard drive to your new hard drive.
A clone is an exact, bootable duplicate of a source drive, and it will give you everything that you are used to , except you will have it on your new, larger drive.
After an OS has been installed (clone or new install) on the new drive, in System Preferences/Startup Disk, select the new drive as Startup volume, and restart.
After you are satisfied that all things are as they should be on the new drive, the smaller drive can be erased and have Leopard installed on it, as you suggest.

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