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Another MacBook Hard Drive Replacement Experience
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<blockquote data-quote="kentuckyfried" data-source="post: 529277" data-attributes="member: 41741"><p>Thanks for posting...this will be very useful.</p><p></p><p>I've been meaning to increase the size of my macbook's hard drive for some time. I was depending on an external drive solution I picked up about a month ago before I realized that I can't run XP from the external drive. Bootcamp really needs to have the partitions on the same internal drive to work. </p><p></p><p>Anyhow, extra hard drive space never hurt anyone, but I do need to get bigger internal. It's timely b/c my macbook's hard drive has started grinding; I think the issue was caused by an error with a particular bittorrent client, I'm almost sure of it. </p><p></p><p>Getting back to the topic at hand though, what are the specs of the internal hard drive? It needs to be a SATA 2.5" notebook drive? 7200 RPM OK? </p><p></p><p>I've been trying to google it for the past 10 minutes with limited success. Plenty of articles on how to do the operation, including the apple website, but no specs info. This is the sort of thing that should be included in the macbook user guide but is omitted. (I mean, if they're going to tell you how to replace the memory, they might as well fill you in on hard drive replacement as well).</p><p></p><p>edit: I found a thread that said that 7200 RPM SATA's will work with the MBP. Somebody please confirm that the same is true for the Macbook (and note any warnings that I should know about). Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kentuckyfried, post: 529277, member: 41741"] Thanks for posting...this will be very useful. I've been meaning to increase the size of my macbook's hard drive for some time. I was depending on an external drive solution I picked up about a month ago before I realized that I can't run XP from the external drive. Bootcamp really needs to have the partitions on the same internal drive to work. Anyhow, extra hard drive space never hurt anyone, but I do need to get bigger internal. It's timely b/c my macbook's hard drive has started grinding; I think the issue was caused by an error with a particular bittorrent client, I'm almost sure of it. Getting back to the topic at hand though, what are the specs of the internal hard drive? It needs to be a SATA 2.5" notebook drive? 7200 RPM OK? I've been trying to google it for the past 10 minutes with limited success. Plenty of articles on how to do the operation, including the apple website, but no specs info. This is the sort of thing that should be included in the macbook user guide but is omitted. (I mean, if they're going to tell you how to replace the memory, they might as well fill you in on hard drive replacement as well). edit: I found a thread that said that 7200 RPM SATA's will work with the MBP. Somebody please confirm that the same is true for the Macbook (and note any warnings that I should know about). Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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