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Hope this helps the three other people doing this within the next ten years.

2007 macbook hard drive replacement how to#

This took me three days of pain and agony and searching to find out how to do it. Okay, here's an answer from 2018, that actually works (I did it on a 2,1 Mac Mini Late 2007). Here is a link to the actual manual: Mac mini (Mid 2007) Service Manual.

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If interested, a service manual can be found at this site. This would be an upgrade to your existing optical drive. A factory refurbished Apple SuperDrive 8x DVD Burner Drive can be purchased for $8.75.

2007 macbook hard drive replacement install#

To install Ubuntu using a DVD, you would have to repair your optical drive. Actually, the instructions can be found at Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices. This option is "off topic" and it would be better to ask at the site Ask Different. This would require installing a free copy of VirtualBox on OS X. Without a working optical drive, you could still install Windows. Making a USB bootable recover disk assistant will allow you to reload OS X Lion from Apple's web site. If you do, try to see if you can boot to it. If you have Lion installed, did you make a bootable USB flash drive using the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0? If not, then does your mac still have its hidden recovery system partition? You can determine this by holding down the option key at startup. I did successfully install Ubuntu to an external disk using the DVD. The DVD verified OK, but the flash drive listed an error in 1 file. I used instructions posted here to create the flash drive. I was able to boot ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso from a DVD and USB flash drive.

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Not radically, but enough that I thought there might be other folks who would like to see the insides of the 17-inch before cracking theirs open.My next step will be to upgrade the operating system to Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, and to install the new Master Adobe Creative Suite 3 our school just got - and several parts of which I’ll be teaching workshops on these new versions of this spring! I really had to have the extra space to accommodate those, more than anything else.I own a 20-inch mid 2007 iMac (iMac7,1). Now my computer has 135GB of free space - more free space than I had already filled on my old hard drive! For my next log post, I’ll describe the step-by-step process of how I did it, with photographs, mostly because the only instructions I could find on-line were for doing this were for a 15-inch MacBook Pro, and the insides of the two machines are different.

A Torx T6 screwdriver ($5.97 for an 8-in-1 set at HomeDepot).

A 000-size watchmaker’s Philips head screwdriver ($5.97 for an 8-in-1 set at HomeDepot).

A generic USB 2.0 external SATA drive enclosure ($2.99 + $7.99 shipping from TrueIon on eBay).

250GB WesternDigital Scorpio 2.5 SATA ( $142.99 + $7.95 shipping from OWC).

I kept filling up the original one and having to delete lots of things - I even had to archive my entire iTunes library to an external hard drive, which was inconvenient at best - and I wasn’t convinced that the machine was running its best with only a few GB of available space. I needed these things to start: 2006 and replaced it with a 250GB SATA hard drive. This morning I finally bit the bullet and swapped the 120GB hard drive that came in my MacBook Pro when I bought it in Sept.