Upgrade Your Apple MacBook: Data Backup and Preservation.

Step 5 Gut Your Book

Now you are ready to remove that nasty over-packed gut from your MacBook and leave a spacious cavity ready to fill. This task is fairly simple, but it involves operating on your MacBook, so if you want to preserve any notions that there's anything except white candy and creamy macbookness you should have someone else extract your old hard drive.

Here's the how goes, and as always, the images will show you each step.

• Gather your jewelry screw driver set, computer and external hard disk
• Remove the battery.
• Unscrew the two screws that hold the memory and hard disk. These face the back of the laptop, check image three.
• Remove the metal bracket.
• Pull on the plastic tab on the left to extract the hard disk.

Done!

Now we need to install the new disk: