Trying to clone my old hard drive to my new one.

Hi guys
I have installed a new drive called "Main Drive" on my Power Mac G4. This Main Drive is my boot drive, and has all the basic software of OSX 10.3.9, for now. So I am trying to clone my OSX disc onto my new start up disk called "Main Drive", which as a lot more space.
I have tried both carbon copy cloner, and super duper, and for some reason, my new Main Drive does not show up as an option in the "target" selection in carbon copy cloner, or the "to" selection in super duper.
Am I doing something wrong?
Is there another way of doing this?
Hope you can help.
Oh, this version of OSX does not have Migration Assistant.
Thanks,
Anneita

Hi again
Well, I am in trouble again. Hope you can help.
Here's what I did:
1. I stopped the cloning after leaving it overnight with no results. I started the process again, this time not choosing any extra options, and it worked. The clone was successful.
2. So I restarted from my new "Main Drive" but it hung up at 98 % and said "Login in Window Starting".
3. Kept my mouse down, pressed the restart button, and installed the installation disc, and started with the C key down.
4. Started Disk Utility, to repair permissions, and got the following error: Disk Utility Internal Error, "Disk Utility has lost its connection with Disk Management Tool, and cannot continue, Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility. Well, quitting and relaunching didn't work.
5. Did some research and discovered that there is some kind of conflict with I Tunes and OSX 10.3.9. So, I went back and restarted to my old OSX disk. Clicked on the new Main Drive and dragged itunes to the osx desktop. Then tried to run disk utility form the installation disk and it still didn't work. Come to find out I did this incorrectly.
6. So, this time, I started back up to my old osx disc. I clicked on the new Main Drive, chose go to folder from the finders menu, typed in /Library/Receipts, and dragged the ITunes Pkg. to the desk top of osx. (there was no itunes 4.pkg listed.)
7. Started from the C key again to repair permissions, and disk utility still gave me that same error message.
8. Started up from osx again, but this time, I repaired disk the disk permissions from osx not the start up disc, and disk utility seemed to work. I put the removed itunes receipts back.
9. Tried starting up from new Main Drive again, but this time the start up window got hung up on "Waiting for Network File System", which was even worse than the "Login Window Starting" message.
10. Tried to start up new Main Drive with c key and had the same problem as step 9.
11. Started up old osx drive from c key. This time clicked on the new Main drive from the osx, removed the itunes receipts, ran disk utility for the new Main Drive from osx, repaired permissions successfully, but this time, I did not put the itunes receipts back.
12. Then started up from my new Main Drive again, and new its back being hung up at 98 % and once again says "Login Window Starting..."
Help!
Thanks,
Anneita

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