03-06-2008, 09:51 AM

so after eight months my hard drive bit the dust. A search of the forum told me that I had no choice but to get apple to ship me out a new one. Great. Just great. I see it's happened before. My buddy has a MacBook that is 2 years old that runs better than my new one. I don't get it.

Anyway, can anyone point me in the right direction as far as guidance in installing the hard drive myself? I don't want to fry the internals and then not be covered at all by my apple care warranty.

03-06-2008, 10:54 AM

Well, it is under warranty. Apple will replace it for free. If you do it yourself, you will need to replace old HD when sending it in for service in the future to be covered under AppleCare. It's a weird rule for a do-it-yourself part. See ifixit.com for a good walkthough.
Apple didn't make the HD. As mad as you are, it's not Apple's fault the HD crashed. No drive is perfect. You can't blame Apple because of a 3rd party malfunction.
Say a quarter a million Macbooks have been sold in the past few years. If you find 250 people with a bad HD, that's a failure rate of .001%. I think a 2% electronics failure rate would be respectable. I doubt you found 250 people with a bad HD. Just food for thought....