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Another MacBook Hard Drive Replacement Experience
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<blockquote data-quote="steven11" data-source="post: 286563" data-attributes="member: 22354"><p>Thank you, Thank You!! I did go down that route. It was a breeze so far. I took out the old drive replaced it and now I'm copying the contents of my old drive over to my new chubby 160. My only suggestion is get a firewire. I'm using a usb and its oh so slow. It took two hours to back up my old drive and I'm expecting it to take another two hours to back up onto my new one. I love this machine and I only wish the install took a little more time and was not so easy. The geniuses wanted to charge me 40 bucks to swap out the hardware. It literally took 5 minutes to take out he old drive and replace it with a new one and I've never even attempted it before. They also told me for the low, low price of $79 they'd be happy to back up all my files and swap them as well. I bet they'd be happy!! If you are sitting on the fence trying to decide if you're mechanical enough to do this, let me tell you, you are! No offense but if you have two hands and half a brain save yourself the extra loot and do it yourself. Check this out. Here's a vid to show you the process start to finish. Complements of OWC...<a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/macbook/macbook/high.html" target="_blank">http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/macbook/macbook/high.html</a></p><p></p><p>I guess i"m patting myself on the back a little ahead of time cuz I'm still swapping files but so far the mechanical aspect was very short and very sweet. Just read the directions and watch the vid and you should be golden.:black:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steven11, post: 286563, member: 22354"] Thank you, Thank You!! I did go down that route. It was a breeze so far. I took out the old drive replaced it and now I'm copying the contents of my old drive over to my new chubby 160. My only suggestion is get a firewire. I'm using a usb and its oh so slow. It took two hours to back up my old drive and I'm expecting it to take another two hours to back up onto my new one. I love this machine and I only wish the install took a little more time and was not so easy. The geniuses wanted to charge me 40 bucks to swap out the hardware. It literally took 5 minutes to take out he old drive and replace it with a new one and I've never even attempted it before. They also told me for the low, low price of $79 they'd be happy to back up all my files and swap them as well. I bet they'd be happy!! If you are sitting on the fence trying to decide if you're mechanical enough to do this, let me tell you, you are! No offense but if you have two hands and half a brain save yourself the extra loot and do it yourself. Check this out. Here's a vid to show you the process start to finish. Complements of OWC...[URL="http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/macbook/macbook/high.html"]http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/macbook/macbook/high.html[/URL] I guess i"m patting myself on the back a little ahead of time cuz I'm still swapping files but so far the mechanical aspect was very short and very sweet. Just read the directions and watch the vid and you should be golden.:black: [/QUOTE]
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