Procedure to replace boot drive.

Hi folks,
I'm feeling especially dense tonight. Have been googling and just can't find what I need. I have an Imac running OSX 10.8.5 My boot drive no longer passes SMART. I have an external drive running time machine. My question is...... When I install a new drive, is it just a simple matter of booting using control-R and restoring through time machine? If not, what exactly do I need to do?
Also, how dificult is it to take apart the Imac and replace the drive?
And lastly, I need to make sure I'm interpreting this correctly. In my disk utilities window, topmost it displays: "500.11 GB ST3500418AS" in red. If I select that, on the right side of the screen is displayed "This device has a hardware problem that can not be repaired" It does not give me any verify or repair buttons to use. Right below that on the left is my Macintosh HD. My computer was running poorly, and checking around utilities, I found that this drive had errors. However, verifying, then repairing that drive worked great. The computer is running great again. So, am I correct that "Macintosh HD" is a partition of 500.11.........? And that the drive is physically failing?
Thanks folks. I couldn't find what I wanted on Google, I don't know why.

What model year is your iMac? If it is new enogh that it came with Lion or Mt Lion Pre-Installed then yes once you change the hard drive you use Command + r key (Not Control + r) and that may boot you to the Online Internet recovery system from which you can Restore your Mac from your Time Machine backup drive.
If it older and originally came with Snow Leopard then you;ll need to use the original system reinstall disc to boot the computer and then Restore fron your time machine backup drive. Once you repplace the hard drive on system older than when Lion came out you might not have access to the Online recovery system as it wasn't included on older Mac computers and the drive that has the built in Recovery HD partition from the install of either Lion, Mt Lion or Mavericks is no longer in the system.
So what model year is your Mac and what version of OS X came on it when it was new?

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