Once that was done I dragged my apps and data from the old drive across to the new drive. So finally I bit the bullet and re-installed Snow Leopard (the most recent media I had), upgraded to Lion, then Mountain Lion through the App Store. I could always replace the old drive, but I was starting to think I might have wasted my money. That would have been fine for a Time Machine backup, since the old drive was not completely full, but for an image restore it’s a big no-no. If it boots normally (it will be slower) then you can be pretty sure it is the cable and not the hard drive. If you see Macintosh HD or something similar below an orange icon, click on it. Apple MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009) 500GB 5400RPM 2.5' 7mm height HDD Laptop hard drive replacement/upgrade, New with 2-year factory warranty. Boot the MacBook and then hold the Option key just after you hear the chime and it should boot to a device selection screen. That would have been fine, except the new hard drive was fractionally smaller than the old one. Apple MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009) Hard Drive Replacement (500GB SATA 5400RPM HDD) New 4051528202663. I connected my old hard drive using a USB cable, booted from the CD and used the Disk Utility to restore the old hard drive to the new SSD. It turns out my Time Machine backups weren’t as complete as I thought. I use Time Machine for backups, so I slapped in the new hard drive, booted from the CD and expected to just restore from Time Machine. 1 Hard Drive Bracket for use with a Late 2008 or Early 2009 A1286 15' MacBook Pro. The transfer of the data proved a little more tricky than I expected though… Late 2008 / Early 2009 A1286 15' MacBook Pro. The actual hard drive replacement is pretty simple. It arrived yesterday, so during last nights insomnia, I decided to fit the hard drive, rather than stare at the ceiling.
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I do demos with a couple of Linux VMs running Oracle and it works OK. A few years ago I upgraded from 4G to 8G RAM, so I’m not stranger to taking the back off it.Įven though it’s quite old by computer geek standards, I really don’t have any performance problems. Apart from one brief visit to Apple to replace a noisy fan, I’ve had no worries. I’ve had my 13″ MacBook Pro since the mid 2009 refresh and it’s been really reliable.