T61P: Upgrading 100GB HDD to 250GB HDD using Norton Ghost

Hi, i am planning on upgrading the HDD in my t61p and would like to know, can i use Norton ghost on a desktop pc, with both 2.5" HDD attached to the desktop via USB enclosures, and make an image of the 100gb onto the 250gb? If not this, is there another method of duplicating the HDD's such as making recovery cd's and then using those cd's to place the image onto the new hdd?
Thanks in advance.

ToastMonk wrote:
Thanks everyone. I've done a copy with Carbon Copy Cloner and everything seems to be working fine. Good idea, woodmeister50 to test it before going through fiddle of installing it on mac mini.
Thanks ToastMonk. I just went through that process
although I was using Seagate's Thunderbolt adapter.
I was actually testing for many weeks as I had not
seen many reviews with Macs on the drive I
had purchased and wanted to make very sure all
was well.

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