SMART warns Boot Drive will Fail

[Simon]

There isn't that much of a cost of doing it wrong, as long as you have
a live-cd handy and know how to use chroot (chroot /mnt/ubuntu
/bin/bash, basically, but you need to mount -o bind /dev, /sys/, to
/mnt/ubuntu/dev and /mnt/ubuntu/sys first, and possibly copy /etc/mtab
to /mnt/ubuntu/etc first).  If you want to rewrite the MBR, you use
grub-install while chrooted into (or booting normally) your ubuntu
installation.

If you want to transfer your root partition, use a live CD or
otherwise separate OS, mount the old partition, mount the newly
created one, and use cp -ar /path/to/old /path/to/new, otherwise you
can use tar, but make sure you preserve perms and ownerships of files
(look in the man page).

Sorry for the crappy instructions, I'm trying to help, but not too
hard ;)  If you need more info about grub, see
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2,
which explains how to set it up if you're chrooting into the install
you're setting up, from a livecd or other OS.
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