A question about migration assistant

Hello,
I have a start up hard drive going bad, and I'd like to migrate all of my apps, prefs and user data to another internal drive.
Can I use Migration assistant to do this? Do I have to start up from the drive I'm migrating to? The newer drive already has content on it; a system, user and pics, etc. I don't care if the system and it's apps are replaced, but the work I have on there I'd rather not lose.
Am I going about this the right way, by using MA or do I need to try something else?
I'm running 10.6.8 on an Intel 2.66
Thanks for any suggestions.
-Vincent

Yotu have to boot the Mac from the drive you want to migrate data to. The go to Migration Assistant in the Appls folder and open it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889

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