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Can't remove Macbook Hard Drive!

FleurDuMal

FleurDuMal

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Hey,

I'm replacing my Macbooks hard drive for the second time. The first time I replaced it I stupidly followed the official Apple guide which makes no mention of the hard drive caddy, so ended up chucking the caddy away with the old hard drive (yes, I know, durr). So now I'm trying to fit in my nice new 500GB HD and have not tab or anything to grab onto to get my old drive out of Macbook 🙁

So yeah...I'm completely stuck on how to get the little git out. Any ideas?!?
😕
 
Apple - Support - Discussions - Installed new hard drive, forgot EMI ...

I figured this out, since I just did this yesterday. What I was able to do was to slide the EMI shield over the hard drive. Then I took two pieces of that thick mounting tape. I put one piece on the edge of the hard drive and another piece on the little plastic pull tab. I pushed to two pieces of mounting tape together, turned my MB on its side the the hard drive was pointing down and gave it a little tug. The hard drive pulled out easily. I then removed the mounting tape and installed the EMI shield on the hard drive and re-installed. Good luck!
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Since you are missing the caddy, you may have to substitute another piece of metal.
 
Sorry for asking since it's no help to you but... Why did you throw away the hard drive? Was it dead? Or were you just upgrading your hard drive?
 
Knolly said:
Sorry for asking since it's no help to you but... Why did you throw away the hard drive? Was it dead? Or were you just upgrading your hard drive?
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I was just upgrading my hard drive from 40GB to 250GB. Thinking about it, I might still have the caddy attached to that old hard drive. Problem is its 200+ miles away at the moment.
 
Just to let you know, I eventually got the damn thing out by cutting a strip of cardboard, folding it slighly at the end, applying some two sided sellotape to it, attaching it to the hard drive and just pulling it out. Worked like a dream. Now I'm just looking for a caddy so I don't have this problem again.

Thanks guys 🙂
 
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