UpgradeMacBookProHardDrive
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Upgrading a MacBook Pro's Hard Drive
Outline for Upgrading a MacBook Pro Hard Drive.
Preparation
Measure twice; cut once.
Get Current System Specifications
- Which make/model of hard-drive is currently in your system?
- Apple - About This Mac - More Info
- Hardware - Serial ATA
- Look up the model at the manufacturers web site.
- What are the physical dimensions? Don't want a replacement drive that's too thick.
- What are the interface specs?
- Look up the model at the manufacturers web site.
- Depending on your performance and capacity needs, choose a new drive of the same interface type - Serial ATA.
Create the New Drive Image
- Make an identical, bootable copy of your current system on the new drive
- I used SuperDuper! (See LifeHacker Example)
- (optional) Verify that the new drive is bootable using a FireWire-to-SATA interface.
- Power off your computer
- Plug in the FireWire drive
- Hold down the option key and press the Power button. When presented with the option to boot from the internal or external drives, select the external.
- Note: Don't be tempted to play too much with the imaged drive yet. As the final step, you'll need to rename the new transplanted drive or some applications won't work properly.
References
- Step by Step Mirror Your Mac on a Bootable External Drive
- Fixit Guide - DIY PowerBook, MacBook and iBook Repair and Disassembly
--AndrewPlumb 14:52, 4 December 2007 (PST)