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How traumatic is it to replace the HDD on a MacBook
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<blockquote data-quote="chssvl" data-source="post: 872302" data-attributes="member: 53329"><p>Well, It's donde. I have to say it was pretty easy and hassle free. Unfortunately, the apple guide doesn't mention the need for a T8 scrwdriver so I had to go out and find one (had to buy a whole set just to get it). Anyway, used Superduper as suggested (followed the steps at <a href="http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130" target="_blank">How to Upgrade Your MacBook's Hard Drive | Macinstruct</a>) and it was pretty easy. Also used winclone to make an image of the BootCamp partition. Restoring this partition was a bit more cumbersome as you needed to make sure that the space allocated to the partition was exactly the same as before or you'd end up with a lot of unused space. And trying to resize the partition with tools such as gparted seemed to render it unbootable. Also, getting VMware Fusion to read the Bootcamp partition was a bit tricky. I had to find the virtual machine folders and delete them manually.</p><p></p><p>There's only one issue. When starting up the laptop, the white screen before the apple logo appears seems to be taking longer than before (about 40s). Before (if I remember correctly) the apple logo showed up almost immediately. Is there any way of solving this?</p><p></p><p>Thank you so much for your help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chssvl, post: 872302, member: 53329"] Well, It's donde. I have to say it was pretty easy and hassle free. Unfortunately, the apple guide doesn't mention the need for a T8 scrwdriver so I had to go out and find one (had to buy a whole set just to get it). Anyway, used Superduper as suggested (followed the steps at [url=http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130]How to Upgrade Your MacBook's Hard Drive | Macinstruct[/url]) and it was pretty easy. Also used winclone to make an image of the BootCamp partition. Restoring this partition was a bit more cumbersome as you needed to make sure that the space allocated to the partition was exactly the same as before or you'd end up with a lot of unused space. And trying to resize the partition with tools such as gparted seemed to render it unbootable. Also, getting VMware Fusion to read the Bootcamp partition was a bit tricky. I had to find the virtual machine folders and delete them manually. There's only one issue. When starting up the laptop, the white screen before the apple logo appears seems to be taking longer than before (about 40s). Before (if I remember correctly) the apple logo showed up almost immediately. Is there any way of solving this? Thank you so much for your help. [/QUOTE]
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