I'm thinking about installing Lion on an external drive to see if it's working properly (should be by now, right?), but was wondering if I can just pop it into the mac as an internal drive once I've realized it works fine?
Sure, as long as it fits. In fact, that's a simple way to switch drives. Clone your internal drive to an external, using Carbon Copy Cloner. Then swap the drives, so your internal drive now becomes an external drive, for backups or additional storage.I'm thinking about installing Lion on an external drive to see if it's working properly (should be by now, right?), but was wondering if I can just pop it into the mac as an internal drive once I've realized it works fine?
Sure, as long as it fits. In fact, that's a simple way to switch drives. Clone your internal drive to an external, using Carbon Copy Cloner. Then swap the drives, so your internal drive now becomes an external drive, for backups or additional storage.