Swapping internal with external HD

I have a 250 GB external HD that I want to swap with the 120GB HD in my macbook. If I just swapped them directly and then booted up would it work or would I have to format the external and intern? I also want to use the internal one as an external once i have swapped them. Obviously I dont want to lose any of my data. Any ideas?
Thanks heaps

Is the external drive a bootable drive with your system installed on it?. Is it the correct form factor to fit you MacBook. It has to meet these dimensions plus be a 2.5 inch SATA drive. If it does it should work.
Physical Dimensions
English
Height: 0.374 ±0.008 inch
Length: 3.94 ±0.010 inch
Width: 2.75 ±0.010 inch
Weight: 0.26 Pounds (±0.10 lb)
Metric
Height: 9.5 ±0.20 mm
Length: 100.2 ±0.25 mm
Width: 69.85 ±0.25 mm
Weight: 0.117 kg (± 0.082 kg)

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I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but after using a late 2006 20" iMac for the last 5 1/2 yrs. it decided to give me a folder with a question mark in the middle of the screen when I tried rebooting a few weeks ago. After reading multiple forums and tech support advice, I learned that my hard drive bit the dust. That's what the question mark meant, it was nowhere to be found. I decided to get a new 3.5" SATA hd. (A friend of mine just happened to have one unopened!! What luck!!) Instead of going through the hassle of tearing my mac apart, I just bought me an enclosure shell and plugged it in. I did a recovery off of my Time Machine backup and now I'm back in business. Here is the strange thing... I shut down my mac and went to church. When I got home I started it up and my internal drive happen to start working again. The only thing I could figure is that maybe it got too hot or something. Now I have two hd's, internal and externa, (plus my Time Machine backup)l. This seems to be presenting a problem with Time Machine. Does anyone have any advice as to what I could do as far as the internal drive is concerned? I hate to use it as my main drive and have it crash on me again. And can Time Machine backup two hard drives at the same time? I've been wondering about using RAID but am not that familiar with it. What's the difference between concatenated RAID and striped RAID? Any advice would be appreciated.
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