Trying to replace my current home drive with new drive

Trying to clone home drive to new drive and this is the error I receive. Source volume is read-write and cannot be unmounted, so it can't be block copied.

You are using Carbon Copy Cloner? maybe you need to boot from another system clone you made, or using Recovery Mode and Disk Utility?
I always keep a separate special emergency-maintenance boot drive in addition to having a working system drive; a clone of the working system (at a minimum)
That way I can also have 10.7.4 and 10.7.5 or Lion and Mountain Lion if needed.
Have you got other drives, internal and external, and tried removing those?
A safe boot should of course work.
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The best thing to do would be to start over. Use Setup Assistant this time.
Boot into Recovery, launch Disk Utility, and erase the startup volume. This operation will destroy all data on the volume. Quit Disk Utility and install OS X. If your Mac was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade, so make a note of those before you begin.
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iPhone 4s
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