Should be able to swap the hard drive pretty easily...I did this (not with a macbook but with pc) when I had to change computers from older model to newer one
with apple you are safe, pull out your hard drive , conected ( even with USB ) to any apple computer, start the computer ( press ALT ) it will give an option which hard drive you want to use, choose your target hard drive...enter...here you go )
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