Advice on 2005 Macbook

[MoonGuy]

Harddrive blew on my macbook and its out of warranty. Can I just buy a harddrive and install it and put in the Mac OSX installation CD and it will be ok. Or is there something fancy formatting i would have to do before installing.

 

[pastrychef]

Yes, you can replace the dead drive with any SATA 2.5" drive that's 9.5mm in height.

Once you've installed the drive, boot up from your OS X install disc. Launch Disk Utility. Partition your drive (make sure to use GUID partition table). Return to the OS X installation process and continue with the installation. Done.

 

[marshallbedsaul]

I believe it would be similar to replacing your hd which I have done. It was pretty simple and the steps are really easy.
follow the link there are a lot of links like this one
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/08/a_320gb_birthday_installing_a_new_hard_drive_1.html

 

[MoonGuy]

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Thank you for your help.