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Step 6Awaken The Beast - Insert the new drive
You now have two duplicates of your disk sitting outside of your computer--they are both bootable, too. This means that you may take the new disk and put it into your computer and have it run just like it used to... except you will have much more space now.
What you should do though is:
This is 3/4th's of the backup procedure. I promised you more though. To truly fossilize your mac you need time machine to create an image of your mac at the current time. This will prevent problems with losing data in the future.
What you should do though is:
- Take old drive; unscrew it from its casing.
- Screw the casing onto the new drive.
- Reinsert into the hard drive bay and push till it doesn't go any further.
- Rescrew the metal bracket.
- Reinstall the battery.
- Flip the laptop, open it and push the ON button.
This is 3/4th's of the backup procedure. I promised you more though. To truly fossilize your mac you need time machine to create an image of your mac at the current time. This will prevent problems with losing data in the future.
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Sep 1, 2008. 9:08 AMrbanker
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One thing to note... I did this myself on my first-gen MacBook a few months ago and the screws holding the hard drive into the casing on my system work were torx #9s. I found a set of torx keys at the local Lowe's hardware, but #9s are typically only used in electronics, and so weren't the easiest things to find.
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