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First, make sure your hdd is already recognized by BIOS. Then after you bootup linux edit /etc/fstab
In general I think you should not move your root partition around. If you need more space in the /home tree, then move the home tree to the new hard disk. In this way, your /etc/fstab should have something *like* this:
/dev/hdb1 /home auto defaults 0 0
provided you only have one primary partition which is already created a linux partition on it (say ext2/3/reiserfs)
Alternatively, LVM may be a better solution to you. But I haven't tried this before so can't give you any comments on that.
10GB is a lot! I don't know why you need that much space but, ... well.