{"id":228,"date":"2006-08-12T07:09:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T22:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-08-12\/228"},"modified":"2006-08-12T07:09:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T22:09:41","slug":"advice-on-changing-a-macbook-hard-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-08-12\/228","title":{"rendered":"Advice on Changing a MacBook Hard Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nI finally received the larger, 160GB laptop disk drive I <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-07-27\/220\">ordered<\/a> some time ago. <span class='nobr'>I turns<\/span> out that they were back ordered and that the supply wasn't coming in\nas quickly as the folks at Trans International thought, so they kindly cut\nme <span class='nobr'>a deal<\/span> on <span class='nobr'>a different<\/span> 160GB drive that they'd just received <span class='nobr'>a shipment<\/span>\nof, and as <span class='nobr'>a bonus,<\/span> they overnighted it to me.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nI had some issues with the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.transintl.com\/store\/category.cfm?Category=2643\">minixpress\n825<\/a> firewire drive that <span class='nobr'>I also<\/span> ordered. <span class='nobr'>It's a new<\/span> product and they're\nstill having to work out some kinks in the housing design. After <span class='nobr'>a call<\/span> to\nthe company and some futzing around (involving some shims under the disk\nwhere it connects to the board), it was working fine.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nI used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombich.com\/software\/ccc.html\">Carbon Copy\nCloner<\/a> to copy the laptop's entire 80 gig drive to the new one 160 gig\none, then shutdown to swap the small drive out and put the large drive in.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nReplacing the hard drive on <span class='nobr'>a MacBook<\/span> is really quite simple, but still,\nhere are some small points of advice:\n\n<\/p>\n   \n<ul>\n  <li><p>Although not mentioned in the instructions, the laptop <b>does not recognize<\/b> the disk if installed upside-down.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>Pressing the disk in harder does not help.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>The correct orientation when the MacBook is upside-down is &#8220;disk label-side down&#8221;<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>There are thin rubber glides on the sides of the bay, connected\ntenuously with small dabs of glue. Leave them there. <span class='nobr'>Do not shove<\/span> them back\ninto the bay while trying to insert the disk.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>If you shove them back into the bay, installing the disk (even correct-side-up) is <span class='nobr'>a challenge,<\/span> at best.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>Tweezers can help to retrieve packed-in-the-back rubber glides<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>There is a thin protective strip of metal that covers the disk and\n   memory bay. While it's possible to reinstall this thin strip even when the\n   disk has been inserted upside-down, it is <b>not recommended<\/b>. <span class='nobr'>It's much easier<\/span> to install if the disk has been installed correctly.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\nI hope these bits of advice are helpful to someone.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>I now have 70 gig free, and will start filling with converted copies of old home video on Hi-8 and SVHS tapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I finally received the larger, 160GB laptop disk drive I ordered some time ago. I turns out that they were back ordered and that the supply wasn't coming in as quickly as the folks at Trans International thought, so they kindly cut me a deal on a different 160GB drive that they'd just received a shipment of, and as a bonus, they overnighted it to me. <\/p><p> I had some issues with the minixpress 825 firewire drive that I also ordered. It's a new product and they're still having to work out some kinks in the housing design. After [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}