installing new harddrive - late 08 macbook

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PedroMendes

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Oct 24, 2008

• #1

hello from scotland !,

New to the forums and am getting my new macbook 2Ghz tomorrow 🙂 and am wondering how easy it is to change the harddrive - is there a guide I am follow ?

Any advice appreciated.

Fraser

 

milan03

macrumors 6502

• Oct 24, 2008

• #2

open the battery lid, pop the drive out, pop in the new drive. Install osx.

 

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fuzzielitlpanda

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 24, 2008

• #3

milan03 said:

open the battery lid, pop the drive out, pop in the new drive. Install osx.

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not quite that easy. op, take a look at this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1752296&tstart=90

First thing you need to do is make sure you have the proper tools.

 

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PedroMendes

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Oct 24, 2008

• #4

fuzzielitlpanda said:

not quite that easy. op, take a look at this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1752296&tstart=90

First thing you need to do is make sure you have the proper tools.

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Thanks for the pointer - I'll give it a go 🙂

 

StingerT125

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 24, 2008

• #5

Download the manual, it explains how to do the hard drive and the memory.

http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macbook