Want to clone system drive - best approach?

The original 160 SATA drive in my fall '04-vintage G5 dual 2 gig machine is makin' funny music. I figure the best way to deal with it is to clone it to a new drive and replace it.
Are there utilities that help me do this? Can I just copy one drive to another, remove the old drive, and start up from the new one like nothing's changed? Or is is trickier than that?

Hi Mike - You can either install OS X on a volume/partition of another internal or an external firewire drive - or clone your current drive if it Disk Verifies ok in Disk Utility - with CCC
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
or SuperDuper
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
and then select it as the Startup disc in System Preferences > Startup Disc - or boot holding down the Option(alt) key. (Copying doesn't produce a 'bootable' drive.) Any iSight should be disconnected during cloning to a firewire drive - and you should boot and run on the cloned drive a few times to make sure it's ok.
Please post again if you need further info.

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