Replacing Hard Drive

[Stephen A. Brenner]

My Linux system (SUSE) hard drive is too frequently coming up with
errors that I need to run fsck on. I'm figuring it has reached the
end of its useful lifespan. Is there an easy way to put a new drive
in, copy from one system to the other, remove the old drive and
have the system up and running with the new drive? 

Or would it be just as easy to backup the data and reinstall the 
system over again?

Thanks,

Steve