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<blockquote data-quote="Shootist" data-source="post: 1374555" data-attributes="member: 232297"><p>All hard drives made to fit in a notebook computer will work. They are 2.5 by 9.5-12.5mm</p><p></p><p>Seagate, Hitachi will work just fine. There have been some report of some Western Digital model drives not functioning correctly with some Mac notebook computers so I would not suggest you look at any of those.</p><p></p><p>You will need to CLONE your original drive to the NEW drive before you install it inside the notebook. You do that with cloning software like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. I have used bot and actually like SuperDuper better, but either will work.</p><p></p><p>You will need to connect the new drive to the notebook with a SATA to USB adapter of some type, whether an enclosure or just an adapter.</p><p></p><p>Once you have the adapter or enclosure, the new drive and you have installed the cloning software connect the new drive to one of the USB ports and open Disk Utility. Partitioon and format the new drive with one partition and the format of Mac Extended (Journaled) and make sure the Partition Table is set to GUID (you do that from the Options button). Once that is done exit out of DU and start the cloning software. Clone from the internal to the external drive.</p><p></p><p>Then once that is done take the MBP apart and switch out the drives. It should boot off the new internal drive. But if it doesn't then at startup hold down the Option key and select the new drive to boot from. Then go into Startup Disk and make sure that new drive is selected as the Startup Disk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shootist, post: 1374555, member: 232297"] All hard drives made to fit in a notebook computer will work. They are 2.5 by 9.5-12.5mm Seagate, Hitachi will work just fine. There have been some report of some Western Digital model drives not functioning correctly with some Mac notebook computers so I would not suggest you look at any of those. You will need to CLONE your original drive to the NEW drive before you install it inside the notebook. You do that with cloning software like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. I have used bot and actually like SuperDuper better, but either will work. You will need to connect the new drive to the notebook with a SATA to USB adapter of some type, whether an enclosure or just an adapter. Once you have the adapter or enclosure, the new drive and you have installed the cloning software connect the new drive to one of the USB ports and open Disk Utility. Partitioon and format the new drive with one partition and the format of Mac Extended (Journaled) and make sure the Partition Table is set to GUID (you do that from the Options button). Once that is done exit out of DU and start the cloning software. Clone from the internal to the external drive. Then once that is done take the MBP apart and switch out the drives. It should boot off the new internal drive. But if it doesn't then at startup hold down the Option key and select the new drive to boot from. Then go into Startup Disk and make sure that new drive is selected as the Startup Disk. [/QUOTE]
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