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<blockquote data-quote="bmac89" data-source="post: 1598059" data-attributes="member: 104075"><p>Thanks for all your help. </p><p></p><p>As an alternative to replacing the Hard drive (at the moment) maybe I could relocated all my Itunes music and Iphoto library onto an external hard drive and run them off that. I could then wipe my hard drive and clean install, using my time machine backup to replace documents etc... minus the music and photos of course which are already transferred to the external drive.</p><p></p><p>I would assume this could act as a type of defrag for the drive as well as freeing up space?</p><p></p><p>How much free space do you recommend?</p><p></p><p>In the meantime I will have to look into upgrading the hard drive. I heard something about finding drives with heat sensors compatible with apple but will need to look further into this. I'm also assuming it is best to get this done by an Apple repair rather than messing about with pulling the screen off! </p><p></p><p>Off the top of your head any ideas what sort of cost would be involved in the actual installation of a new drive?</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p></p><p>P.S. While typing this post I notice harryb2448 posted regarding Idefrag - Thanks, I will give that a try too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bmac89, post: 1598059, member: 104075"] Thanks for all your help. As an alternative to replacing the Hard drive (at the moment) maybe I could relocated all my Itunes music and Iphoto library onto an external hard drive and run them off that. I could then wipe my hard drive and clean install, using my time machine backup to replace documents etc... minus the music and photos of course which are already transferred to the external drive. I would assume this could act as a type of defrag for the drive as well as freeing up space? How much free space do you recommend? In the meantime I will have to look into upgrading the hard drive. I heard something about finding drives with heat sensors compatible with apple but will need to look further into this. I'm also assuming it is best to get this done by an Apple repair rather than messing about with pulling the screen off! Off the top of your head any ideas what sort of cost would be involved in the actual installation of a new drive? Thanks P.S. While typing this post I notice harryb2448 posted regarding Idefrag - Thanks, I will give that a try too. [/QUOTE]
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