Transferring recovered 10.3.9 files to new 10.4 install on new harddrive

imac g4 800 15" 60G 10.3.9 hard drive failed so sent to Ontrack for data recovery. now plan to install 10.4.11 on new 250G drive.Old data is on Ontrack provided 250G external hdrive. Best way? A) Can i just install 10.4.11 and then drag whichever files i want across (mainly Office v.X files of 5G (and ifotos 40G). should i partition drive first for back ups/fotos. Advice please.

If I'm right the basics are you have two 250GB drives, one in your computer and essentially empty except for Tiger, and a second drive with your old files.
I would put the second drive in an external Firewire enclosure so in future it could act as a backup drive and hopefully you would not need to use Ontrack again when (not if) your internal drive has problems. Once the drive is in an enclosure you can drag your data files across to your new internal drive. When you are sure everything is across and working you can then clone the entire internal drive to the external and do that as your first complete backup.
Get a Firewire enclosure, not USB. Firewire enclosures can be used to boot your computer. A place to start looking is www.macsales.com, but other places have them too.
I would not partition your drives. It sounds like they are the same size and this is the easiest thing when using one as a backup for another. If you do decide to partition for some reason (such as requiring multiple OS versions) then make sure your backup has partitions that match the partitions on the original.
It would help to know more about your exact model computer. If it is a tower model then one alternative to getting an external enclosure would be to put the second drive in the computer along with the first (I have two in mine). This isn't the ideal situation as far as backup drives go. It will make it easy to backup to the second drive. If the first drive gets a corrupt directory or fails mechanically you will have the second right there from which to boot. However, sometimes drive failure is due to a lost computer (stolen, fire, whatever) in which case your backup is gone too. In a few cases you can get a hardware failure that will corrupt all drives attached to the computer, again resulting in loss of your backup too. For me I am not totally happy with a backup unless I have it physically isolated from my computer (sometimes I keep it at another location).
Cloning And Backup Tools
A bootable clone is an exact copy of your drive which is capable of booting your computer. Making a copy of your computer which is capable of actually starting the computer requires special copying procedures. Some people just back up data files but if you have problems you have to reinstall all your operating system and all your applications. With a bootable clone you just start up from the backup drive and clone back everything.
To copy files from one hard drive to another hard drive you can use:
[CarbonCopy Cloner|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html] (donationware)
[SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] (shareware)
[IBackup|http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html] (free)
The Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X. [Kappy's directions|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8799711#8799711]
[Tri-Backup (commercial)|http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html] (payware)
[Silverkeeper|http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper> (free) - version 2 has some issues (references: [1|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d12jan2009],
[2|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d13jan2009]) and it is recommended Tiger users stick with 1.1.4.
[Kappy's Backup Software Recommendations|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9065665#906 5665]
[Overview of Mac OS X Backup Programs|http://8help.osu.edu/1247.html]

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