New Hard Drive Missing Place Holders?

[freshness]

So I just went through the process of installing a new hard drive after mine crashed and installing everything and it's working great.. Until I picked up my laptop and I heard something shuffling around.

I took off the bottom and my hard drive is missing the bolts (?) that hold it in place.. the four bolts that go around the edges. This is pretty frustrating and I'm hoping there is just an easy fix..

Any ideas?

 

[robbieduncan]

Those don't come with the drive. You are supposed to take the ones of your existing drive and install them on the new drive.

 

[freshness]

Any idea how to get them out of the old drive? They seem to be really in there.. Can't get them to budge.

 

[robbieduncan]

When I've done this on previous MBPs they were simply screws that you unscrewed using an appropriately sized philips screw driver.

 

[getz76]

Any idea how to get them out of the old drive? They seem to be really in there.. Can't get them to budge.

You need a Torx head screwdriver. If you used a Philips, you might have stripped the heads.

 

[stridemat]

From memory you will need a Torx head screw driver.

 

[discounteggroll]

Torx 6 I believe, but I have been wrong in the past. I wouldn't move the computer when it's on until you install those

 

[robbieduncan]

Ah, I stand corrected. I have plenty of Torx drivers so if it was one of those I'd have just grabbed one...