Moving Arch to drive with Windows.

Hey there,
So I had installed Arch several months ago on my laptop. Because I didnt want to screw anything up, I swapped out the laptop hard drive with a spare one and installed Arch on there. However, now i would like to move Arch back into my original laptop HDD so i dont have to keep swapping things out when i need to use winblows. My windows partition is already shrunk down and I have enough unallocated space on the drive for my Arch installation. So is all I have to do now clone the partitions from the external drive to the internal drive? Would i also need to boot into a live cd regenerate the fstab?

iurnait wrote:So is all I have to do now clone the partitions from the external drive to the internal drive?
There are some limitations to this:
If you have a MBR partition table, you can only have 4 primary partitions on a drive.
The space on your internal drive must be sufficient for all the partitions.
You still have to install a bootloader on the internal drive and configure it to boot arch and windows.
Apart from that i suggest you not to clone the partitions, but the filesystems .
iurnait wrote:Would i also need to boot into a live cd regenerate the fstab?
You definitely need to regenerate the fstab, but not necessarily from a live cd.
Can you find a way to acess both harddrives at once from your laptop, for example with an usb harddrive enclosure?

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