New Hard Disk copy

Hey you all,
I'm planning on getting a new internal hard disk of 160 GB for my MacBook, coz the itsy bitsy 60 GB is now brimming full.
I am getting a Hitachi 5400 rpm hard. The thing is if i get that how will i install everything on that, when many things i need are on this. All the downloaded updates for Mac OS including the huge 200 mb downloads ill have to do again. not to mention install windows on it again and do all the things from there. My bro says only way is get an enclosure for the 60g and coopy from there. but i dont have an enclosure and will have to buy a new one. that means more expenses. im not that rich.
Also, for all of you iPod owners, i have gotten into a bit of letdown. I formatted my new Ipod video from mac and is working perfectly but i cant use it in windows partition as a hard disk. this is bad coz most of my friends will also use windows and i cant copy their videos and other such files to take home. help. im dissapointed about this

Hoony

 

Your bro is correct, the easiest way is to get an enclosure. But if you shop around then this shouldnt be a large expense, $10-15 should be all that you need, and the ease of migration is well worth the expense.
As for your ipod, find one of your windows friends or use boot camp to reformat the ipod in windows. This will allow you to use the ipod as a disk on either mac or pc.
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thanks for the reply but i dont want to reformat in windows format. i like the ipod reading "format : macintosh" thats why, isnt there another way

 

As underpantman said, get a cheap enclosure and image your disk. it is easy and straightforward.

 

The issue with the ipod is that the formatting changes the filesystem. Windows doesn't support HFS+, or whichever your Mac is putting on the ipod. Windows and Mac both support FAT, which is what it gets formatted as if you format from Windows. If you insist on formatting it on your mac and then using it in both, you need some program that will add HFS support to windows. I think that's what macdrive is for. I'm not positive on that point though.

 

How do I image my disk?
I was thinking of installing Mac OS on the blank disc and then dragging stuff from the old hard disk inside the enclosure. WIll this be ok?
Can I take bookmarks and application's current settings along with it?
Also the Mac software updates for every software?
Will i have to do anything before i insert it into the enclosure seeing that it will have 2 partitions already on it?
Will i just be able to drag and drop?

 

SuperDuper! is a great imaging program that will make a bootable OS X drive. It will not image the Windows partition though. You'll need to do that from Windows.