New internal HD, steps?

      I am going to upgrade my RAM and Internal Hard Drive in my Macbook Pro (mid 2009,model # A1278). Currently, I am running snow leopard, but I would like to upgrade to Mountain Lion after getting the new internal HD.
      I know how to remove & put in a hard drive, but are there any other steps I need to take before and after doing so?
     I am not sure if I have to clone copy everything over to the new Hard Drive or if I can just put the current HD in an enclosure and then transfer only the files that I want into the new HD.
This is the hard drive that I am going to buy
Seagate Momentus Laptop HDD 1 TB SATA-300

If you're comfortable with the physcial installation procedure, all you really need to do is to transfer your data.
For that I recommend buying a small, inexpensive USB 2.0 enclosure (can be had for less than $8 at Amazon, although I've more of the $20 ones from OWC) and Carbon Clopy Cloner. You can install the drive before or after the clone. Just put the old or new drive in the enclosure, boot from the old drive, use Disk Utility to format the new drive and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the old drive to the new.
Pretty simple, really.
Clinton
BTW - you can get a HGST 1TB 7200rpm drive from Newegg fo basically the same price - it would be faster than the 5400rpm drive that you've chosen.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145875
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