How To Replace A Linux Root Drive

Inserted the new 500GB hard drive. Booted using Partition Commander 10. Copied /dev/hda6 (linux Reiserfs root partition) to /dev/hdb. One recoverable read error was encountered. Created swap and 2 additional partitions on the new drive using the free space leftover from the copy. Put /home on it's own filesystem and copied the data to it. Now have Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 148444064 22848916 125595148 16% / /dev/hdb1 120056620 32840 120023780 1% /spare /dev/hda3 205762228 1766912 203995316 1% /home /dev/hda4 130001980 32840 129969140 1% /export 115 basil mse (/home/mse): /sbin/swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda2 partition 4160824 515328 -1   Replaced the bad root drive and set the jumpers on the new drive to make it the master. Booted the Suse 10 install DVD into rescue mode. From command I mounted the new root partition at /mnt. I edited the /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst file to change hd0,5 to hd0,0 to reflect the new location of the root partition. I also removed entries for any boot systems no longer available (i.e. windows, etc.) I ran grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hda to update the MBR record. Rebooted and this time selected the Boot from Hard Drive,option from the SuSE 10 menu. I edited the /etc/grub.conf file with the same edits I made to the menu.lst file above. I no longer see any bad sector messages in the /var/log/messages file. I see new entries from the SMARTD disk monitoring daemon for the new drive. It tracks the drive temp in Celsius.