Before the drinking began on 12/31/09 I had this urge to installed a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive in a Apple MacBook MB402LL/A (Early 2008). The Western Digital hard drive was purchased from Newegg.com for a whopping $85, considering this was a steal compared to buying a hard drive from Apple.
Material needed to accomplish this rather easy upgrade was:
- 1 - Nickle, yeah 5 cents
- 0 or 00 Phillips Screw Driver
- T9 (torx) Screw Driver. Had to run out to Sears in the middle of the install to buy one.
- 1 - Light colored hand towel. The dark color torx screws are easy to loose on a dark color towel, believe me!
- Mac OS X installation disk (DVD)
- Backup your Time Machine
- Have your WPA/WPA2 key for your wireless router, no key? Shame on you!
- Have your access name and password for Time Capsule or whatever medium you use for your Time Machine backup
For my Time Capsule I use a Western Digital 1TB My Book World Edition that I also use as a media server throughout the house (more on that later). The MacBook is on a wireless network via Linksys Dual-Band Wireless Router so speed is not a problem.
After the install I was a little concerned (not much, could have been the alcohol thinking) of heat from the new drive so in my drunken state I decided to rip a mess load of DVD's and start converting them over to MP4's. Let me reassure you there is no heat issue.
Okay lets get started spread out your LIGHT colored towel or cloth on a stable work space and after the Mac has had time to cool down internally (about 30 minutes) turn it upside down to access the battery compartment. Taking your certified Apple U.S. Mint nickel unlock the battery latch and the battery will spring up, remove the battery.
Next is the removal of the RAM door (aka L-Bracket), if you downloaded the Hard Drive Replacement PDF from Apple they suggest you touch the metal chassis to discharge any static... Good idea! Take your 0 or 00 Phillips Screw Driver and loosen the three screws holding the RAM door, I believe they have retaining clips on the back so you don't have to fully remove them just loosen them enough to get the plate free of the chassis. Once loose take the longer part of the door and swing toward the front of the computer.
Okay we're cooking with gas now, see the white tab to the left it's rolled under the hard drive chassis, take something and bring the flap out.
Nice, now gently pull the tab out into battery the bay area there is some slight resistance due to the interface plug and the carriage has a little slop to it, it will bind along the sides if your pulling toward the front or back of the chassis. Note: Not to get ahead of ourselves but when your sliding the new drive back in just remember to tuck the white plastic tab back under the drive carriage then push the carriage back in place.
Holding the old drive by the sides set it down and get your T9 Torx Screw Driver and remove the 4 carriage shield screws surrounding the old drive. You will be placing this carriage shield on the new drive. Hint the printed circuit board side is what is being covered by the shield, you should see the drive pins as your remounting the shield.
Your doing great! Now it's time to slide your new drive back into place and remember to tuck your white plastic tab under the drive carriage as your doing this. You will meet a little resistance as the new drive plugs into it's interface about the last 1/8" of travel. Install it the same way you took it out (or you can look above if you forgot).
Okay, now you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, put the RAM door back on with the short side first (pic below). There is a slot that it slides into then the longer section will push back the RAM levers, after a little manipulation on the longer end making sure the RAM door EMI gaskets are safely tucked so they don't give you a fit when reinstalling your battery. You know that unsightly bulge around your waist-line when your slipping on a tight pair of jeans... Was that to much information, sorry!
Reinsert your battery and lock the battery latch and we're ready for hard ball! In my case it was a couple of highballs the night I was doing this. Place the Mac upright, plug in your power supply, get your Mac OS X installation disk ready and turn on the Mac and insert the installation disk. After a little while you will get the Mac OS X Installation screen, select the Utilities on the menu bar then Disk Utility as illustrated below.
Select the "partition" tab, then select the new hard drive in the left window, Click the "+" at the bottom of the Volume Scheme window to get your partition that you will name "Macintosh HD" (without the quotes, naturally). You want to keep the Format selection at "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and click on the "Options" at the bottom of the Volume Scheme window and select "GUID Partition Table" radio button as in the next picture.
Select "OK" and the Disk Utility should look as such:
Then click on "Apply" and it will setup your new drive. You will have something similar as illustrated below.
Can you feel the excitement? I can hardly contain myself. Actually I'm having a hard time remembering all this from last night after going through that mental cleansing that causes your skull capillaries to swell the following day, just bare with me kindly. Okay, the picture above is what I think I ended up with after the new drive was partitioned, that's my story and I'm sticking with it! Did I mention your doing this at your own risk? Okay here is my disclaimer... YOUR DOING THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND IN NO WAY AM I PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR SCREW-UP! With that being said all in love lets carry on.
Now restoration from a previous Time Machine backup go back to the Mac OS X Installation menu bar and select "Utilities" and at the bottom of the menu you will see "Restore System from Backup". And you will see this window open.
Next go to the upper right hand corner of the Mac OS X Installation screen and select your wifi icon and the drop down menu will appear with the routers available, select the router and a window will open that you can input your WPA/WPA2 key.
You are so close to being finished, stand up and soak in the moment... Okay maybe lets wait on this because you will have plenty of time while it's restoring. After this is accomplished you can click on continue from the "Restore your System" window that was opened previously (3 illustrations back). Next you will see something like this illustration.
When you click on "Click on Remote Disk" you will more than likely get another pop-up window asking for your name and password to access the drive. You might end up with something like this
Then select the backup drive and again select "Connect to Remote Disk" and next you will have this.
Select the Backup Time & Date and select "Continue" it will come up with your destination disk, yep thats the disk you just installed.
After selecting the new drive select the "Restore" and you will have a screen pop-up like this. Now its time to get up and find something else to do.
After the system has been completely restored and the system restarts you can eject your Mac OS X Installation disk and log in to your profile select the apple in the upper left of the menu bar and select "About this Mac" then "More Info", in the left hand menu of the System Profiler select Serial-ATA and you can see the fruits of your labor.
Okay we're cooking with gas now, see the white tab to the left it's rolled under the hard drive chassis, take something and bring the flap out.
Nice, now gently pull the tab out into battery the bay area there is some slight resistance due to the interface plug and the carriage has a little slop to it, it will bind along the sides if your pulling toward the front or back of the chassis. Note: Not to get ahead of ourselves but when your sliding the new drive back in just remember to tuck the white plastic tab back under the drive carriage then push the carriage back in place.
Holding the old drive by the sides set it down and get your T9 Torx Screw Driver and remove the 4 carriage shield screws surrounding the old drive. You will be placing this carriage shield on the new drive. Hint the printed circuit board side is what is being covered by the shield, you should see the drive pins as your remounting the shield.
Your doing great! Now it's time to slide your new drive back into place and remember to tuck your white plastic tab under the drive carriage as your doing this. You will meet a little resistance as the new drive plugs into it's interface about the last 1/8" of travel. Install it the same way you took it out (or you can look above if you forgot).
Okay, now you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, put the RAM door back on with the short side first (pic below). There is a slot that it slides into then the longer section will push back the RAM levers, after a little manipulation on the longer end making sure the RAM door EMI gaskets are safely tucked so they don't give you a fit when reinstalling your battery. You know that unsightly bulge around your waist-line when your slipping on a tight pair of jeans... Was that to much information, sorry!
Reinsert your battery and lock the battery latch and we're ready for hard ball! In my case it was a couple of highballs the night I was doing this. Place the Mac upright, plug in your power supply, get your Mac OS X installation disk ready and turn on the Mac and insert the installation disk. After a little while you will get the Mac OS X Installation screen, select the Utilities on the menu bar then Disk Utility as illustrated below.
Select the "partition" tab, then select the new hard drive in the left window, Click the "+" at the bottom of the Volume Scheme window to get your partition that you will name "Macintosh HD" (without the quotes, naturally). You want to keep the Format selection at "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and click on the "Options" at the bottom of the Volume Scheme window and select "GUID Partition Table" radio button as in the next picture.
Select "OK" and the Disk Utility should look as such:
Then click on "Apply" and it will setup your new drive. You will have something similar as illustrated below.
Can you feel the excitement? I can hardly contain myself. Actually I'm having a hard time remembering all this from last night after going through that mental cleansing that causes your skull capillaries to swell the following day, just bare with me kindly. Okay, the picture above is what I think I ended up with after the new drive was partitioned, that's my story and I'm sticking with it! Did I mention your doing this at your own risk? Okay here is my disclaimer... YOUR DOING THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND IN NO WAY AM I PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR SCREW-UP! With that being said all in love lets carry on.
Now restoration from a previous Time Machine backup go back to the Mac OS X Installation menu bar and select "Utilities" and at the bottom of the menu you will see "Restore System from Backup". And you will see this window open.
Next go to the upper right hand corner of the Mac OS X Installation screen and select your wifi icon and the drop down menu will appear with the routers available, select the router and a window will open that you can input your WPA/WPA2 key.
You are so close to being finished, stand up and soak in the moment... Okay maybe lets wait on this because you will have plenty of time while it's restoring. After this is accomplished you can click on continue from the "Restore your System" window that was opened previously (3 illustrations back). Next you will see something like this illustration.
When you click on "Click on Remote Disk" you will more than likely get another pop-up window asking for your name and password to access the drive. You might end up with something like this
Then select the backup drive and again select "Connect to Remote Disk" and next you will have this.
Select the Backup Time & Date and select "Continue" it will come up with your destination disk, yep thats the disk you just installed.
After selecting the new drive select the "Restore" and you will have a screen pop-up like this. Now its time to get up and find something else to do.
After the system has been completely restored and the system restarts you can eject your Mac OS X Installation disk and log in to your profile select the apple in the upper left of the menu bar and select "About this Mac" then "More Info", in the left hand menu of the System Profiler select Serial-ATA and you can see the fruits of your labor.
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Are you A+ Certified at the very least? LOL
ReplyDeleteWe'll just stick to certified, that A+ and Net+ wasn't worth the trouble we went through!
ReplyDeleteSmall follow-up since the install. Key Chains to iChat and Google Chrome were a little flaky but they did find themselves. iTunes when syncing an iPod acted like it never seen the account before and wanted to first add another computer to the account once it came to it's senses there was only one computer registered to the account, then it wanted to overwrite the iPod but upon canceling the procedure it was automatically syncing in the background. That has been the only problems to date. The drive is running cool, and I can't say I've noticed any difference in speed.
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