Orig 250Gb drive failed - Installing Barracuda 7200.12 SATA  1.5 TB drive

My original 250Gb hard drive failed and I am going to install a Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 1.5 TB Hard Drive (ST31500341AS). The old drive isn't completely dead. When I want to the apple store they were able to boot off of an external drive and my drive (after a while) mounted. I was able to transfer some of my files onto a second (500gb) drive that I have installed. During the transfer of one of the largest folders, the original 250Gb drive disconnected/was no longer mounted.
Can I keep my original 250 Gb dive in my Mac Pro, install OS X 10.6.x on the new 1.5 TB hard drive, and then see if the original drive mounts so that I can try to recover my files? Will I have issues having the OS installed on the 2 drives? Does it matter which bay I install the new drive?

You can install the OS to any of the internal drive bays, makes no difference.
Because a drive that is failing can indeed cause problems for the SATA controller, I wold remove the bad drive when I install the OS. Once I have everything installed and working, I wold then shutdown and put the bad drive back into an empty bay, restart, and see if I cold access the bad drive.
Tom
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