Using a mybook drive in a macbook?

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  1. staysmall, Oct 1, 2008

    staysmall macrumors newbie

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    I have one of the newer 500gb wd mybook essential editions,and i was wondering if its possible to take the hard drive out of the external and put it in my macbook?
    thanks,
    cody
     
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  2. jackiecanev2, Oct 1, 2008

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    The mybook is a desktop sized 3.5" drive so no. The wd passport is a 2.5" drive, and many members have replaced their stock drives with those.
     
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  3. staysmall, Oct 1, 2008

    staysmall thread starter macrumors newbie

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    gotcha, dissapointing but thanks for the info anyway.
     
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