Comments on: MacBookPro hard drive upgrade how-to

By: Sparky Firepants

Sparky Firepants — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:18:24 +0000

RYC: Now I know what you were talking about. I guess I just assumed they would all be that easy!

By: george

george — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:49:17 +0000

Thanks for putting this up.. I am a PC guy.. and With your instructions I was able to upgrade my 80 gig to 250 gig on a Powerbook G4 Laptop.. Thanks

By: Bo Erichsen

Bo Erichsen — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:50:13 +0000

Great post! - Just replaced my 80 gigabyte drive whith a brand new 200 Gigabyte Seagate Momentus - (7200 rpm, 16mb cache) - it works great!

By: Nathan Bowers

Nathan Bowers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:21:56 +0000

Nice tip re: screw management.

I actually thought the disassembly step would be harder than it was. The most annoying thing was that I didn’t have any Firewire 800 enclosures to help speed the data transfers along.

The silver bullet for backup for me would be Leopard’s TimeMachine that maintained a bootable backup. Supposedly the upcoming version of SuperDuper will work with TimeMachine to do this.

By: Anh

Anh — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:52:05 +0000

Great post! Thanks for the detailed how-to.

I’ve had to take apart and replace 3 Powerbook hard drives for friends and colleagues in the last few months. I wouldn’t say it’s tons of fun or anything, but it’s definitely not that big a deal. The Macbook Pro looks like it’s easier to deal with though, from what I’ve seen.

When I have the take-apart guides available, I like to place the screws on their positions on the actual diagrams or photos as I go along to keep track of them.

As for backup, I love that the new version of CCC syncs!