dirtystylus

I replaced the hard drive in my Macbook, upgrading to a 250GB drive. The process is quite easy: pop the battery, unscrew the metal L-bracket that shields the RAM slots and the hard drive, and pull the hard drive carrier out by a flexible tab. The one wrinkle in this process was that I didn’t have a Torx screwdriver on my first attempt, and the drive is screwed to the carrier with those star-shaped Torx screws. Apple’s documentation made no mention of this, so I had to close everything up and wait till the next day when I could run down to the hardware store and get the proper (T8 or T9) screwdriver. I found out Joseph had the exact same experience replacing the drive on Kristen’s Macbook. You’d think Apple would have the best documentation, but apparently not. A good run-through on the whole process can be found here. I had cloned my old internal drive to an external drive, so once the new one was installed I booted off the external, formatted the new drive, and then copied the clone from the external using SuperDuper.

I also picked up a USB-powered enclosure to house my old internal drive. I’ll probably use that as a backup drive for Jordan’s machine, and shift the 250GB USB drive that used to hold backups for both our machines to being a dedicated backup for mine. I briefly thought about using my old drive and placing it in the PS3, but that would leave Jordan without a backup.