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Macbook Hard Drive Replacement Issues
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<blockquote data-quote="jv4n" data-source="post: 1007405" data-attributes="member: 145559"><p>Hi,</p><p>I recently bought a new hard drive for my aluminum unibody (late 2008) macbook and proceeded to replace the old one using the instructions in the manual along with a video and restore the data with this guide from my external hard drive. <a href="http://gizmodo.com/333319/the-secret-of-the-time-machine+assisted-hard-drive-swap" target="_blank">The Secret of the Time Machine-Assisted Hard Drive Swap - 320GB - Gizmodo</a></p><p>The hard drive I bought was the Hitachi travelstar 500gb 7200rpm drive. <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145275" target="_blank">Newegg.com - HITACHI Travelstar HD20500 IDK/7K 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Retail</a></p><p>Then, when I started it up it came up with the 'please restart your computer' screen immediately and I couldn't get any further than that. I restarted multiple times but it didn't help. So I put the old hard drive back in which I'm using now and it works fine. </p><p>I was wondering if anyone had any tips for getting this to work or if I just got a defective hard drive and if I should get a replacement. </p><p>Thanks for any help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jv4n, post: 1007405, member: 145559"] Hi, I recently bought a new hard drive for my aluminum unibody (late 2008) macbook and proceeded to replace the old one using the instructions in the manual along with a video and restore the data with this guide from my external hard drive. [url=http://gizmodo.com/333319/the-secret-of-the-time-machine+assisted-hard-drive-swap]The Secret of the Time Machine-Assisted Hard Drive Swap - 320GB - Gizmodo[/url] The hard drive I bought was the Hitachi travelstar 500gb 7200rpm drive. [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145275]Newegg.com - HITACHI Travelstar HD20500 IDK/7K 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Retail[/url] Then, when I started it up it came up with the 'please restart your computer' screen immediately and I couldn't get any further than that. I restarted multiple times but it didn't help. So I put the old hard drive back in which I'm using now and it works fine. I was wondering if anyone had any tips for getting this to work or if I just got a defective hard drive and if I should get a replacement. Thanks for any help. [/QUOTE]
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