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PinkyMacGodess

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I saw on fixit.com the way to remove the hard drive from a macbook pro.

Has anyone done it and had any problems doing it? Does the genius bar do hard drive upgrades if you bring in a new drive?

I want to go to a Seagate 160...

Thanks for comments...
 

Veritas&Equitas

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Yeah, I've done it 15-20 times. Usually takes about 15 minutes. It isn't hard, just takes some time, a small screwdriver, and when you first do it, the ability to read directions :rolleyes:
 

PinkyMacGodess

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Yeah, I've done it 15-20 times. Usually takes about 15 minutes. It isn't hard, just takes some time, a small screwdriver, and when you first do it, the ability to read directions :rolleyes:

Well, real men don't read directions... :p

I was referring to any changes as I got a newer C2D iMac and was expecting to open it for adding ram and found out that, No you don't... I did what I always did on the older imacs and almost had a real mess on my hands. Found the little cover. Like, what? Is it full of state secrets?

Anyway, I was wondering if Apple pulled a changeroo on the drive replacement process...
 

ozziegn

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I've changed mine (in my sig below) to a 200GB 7200rpm Hitachi drive. it took me about an hour because the screws in the MBP are super tiny which means you need a super tiny screwdriver and a T6 Torx driver.

just be super careful not to strip out any screws along the way and you should be fine.
 

crzdmniac

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It's pretty easy to do, as long as you have a #00 phillips screw driver and a T6 torx. On the SR MBP the bluetooth is no longer next to the HD, so don't go looking like crazy for it. I swapped a 250GB Scorpio into mine.
 

r88my

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I did it having never opened up a laptop before and as others have said its pretty straightforward, just make sure you have the right screws.
 

TheStu

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And make sure you get all of them out. I read about a guy on here that went to do the same thing, forgot to remove of the screws and bent his keyboard/topcase assembly, bent it hardcore. So, follow all the directions.
 

2fives

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I just dropped a 250gig :) in mine a few days ago when I bought Leopard. The only problem I had was I rushed tightening the screws back up and ahad to undo it all to re tighten in the right sequence.

What I'm saying is the latch didn't open easily. So what I had to do was tighten the two screws that are down inside the battery compartment by the latch. I tightened those first and all was good. It actually caused me quit a bit of grief and took me a while to do. But in my defence I went slow and steady and it was my first time.
 
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