Willie,

No you clone the system to a bigger internal hard drive. A cloning program copies the system files that windows refuses to create. You used to have to set switches to make a drive master or slave. I think SATA is cable select so whatever is plugged into the first cable is the boot drive. You create the bootable CD with the imgburn software of the clonezilla software. Turn off the power. Install the new SATA drive. Restart the computer and press F8 during the boot. Change the boot device so you boot from CD instead of drive C:. Restart. Run Clonezilla and copy C: to D:. Shut Down. Take out drive C: and install drive D: on C:'s cable. Restart. Press F8 and set drive C: as your boot device. If everything works you should boot from the new disk. If it doesn't you can reinstall old C: no harm, no foul. If everything works you can save old C: as a backup or plug it in D:, Fdisk it and reformat it to use for other storage. If you don't repartition it windows has system files hidden on it that will conflict with your new drive.

Easier than removing your own kidney by a bit.