iMac Aluminum Hard Drive Upgrade Pt 2

[reinis955]

i have a imac 21.5

[AuroraClass]

Man I have to thank you very much you just saved my life. This was an excellent walk through. I followed your steps as you did them and it worked flawlessly. Thank You!

[chirrero]

Great Video!!!

Helped a lot very detail 

[Pizzscn]

What I want is a Graphics card tutorial. How does one do that?

[ditacd]

you are a legend i just fixed my own mac thank you so much.

[meliomaster132]

how do you clone your data to the new drive?

[hadriatic2000]

Never mind, I figured it out . . . it's Kapton tape.

[hadriatic2000]

What is the best type of tape to secure the thermometer? I'm not familiar with "Captain's tape."

[skywatchbob]

Helpful video. The HD in my imac died and I need to replace. It is two years old and past warranty, so I will have to try it myself. This process is much easier in my Dell PC. It is much easier in most if not all PCs. I see that a Mac is not easy to fix.

[greysmoke321]

awesome, I don't trust myself to do what you did, but as I watched you gave me more confidence to do a hard drive swap..

[rioschris]

Yes you can upgrade video cards on iMac as well as the CPU as I've done it to my own.

[TITANICLUSITANIA]

Can you update the Graphic's Card????

[maldonadowilfredo]

Thanks Ron, Very good job.

[gurujpf66]

Nicely done!!!, now how about a video on how to rep. the graphics card, can that be done?

[iApple1000]

I may be wrong, but I think its built into the board. In that case, you will have to replace the board.

[giugno74]

I have an iMac 20 "2.4GB purchased in February 2008, I would replace the original 320GB HD with a larger one ... what kind of HD should I buy? Thanks.

[eerereps]

@giugno74 I think it's a 3.5 inch sata II drive. preferably 7200RPM, 32MB cache, of a size of your choice. eg 750GB, 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB, etc... hope that helped!

[Rjhills]

Thanks.

Just a suggestion, I would change the camera angle so that your hands aren't always in the shot if and when you decide to make another tutorial..

[blueline205]

Thank you. Success replacing our HD with  750 GB.

[madbol]

Thanks a lot!!!!  Really helpfull videos!!! Upgrade done!! :-)

[vectorizer84]

Well done man this seems to be a "pro upgrade". I would be too afraid to mess the machine all up, forgetting scres and cables to be connected here and there, break parts and so on. The only thing I would do by myself is upgrading the RAM *lol*

Anyway, 5 Stars

[RawTimePhotos]

Can anyone tell me what type of harddrive they used for this im looking for about a 1 tb?

[buddylikeguitar]

wtf y did he boot mac he just changed hdds he should of started from new?

[ronholm1]

The data from the old drive was cloned to the new drive.

[buddylikeguitar]

oh cool! and nice video ty for guide

[hhenry989]

I watched your video and I love it! Please tell me how you clone The data from the old drive to the new drive. Thanks again!

[vectorizer84]

There are programs like "superduper" that should do the job. Not sure wether the OSX disk utility could do the same. I guess he used an external case and connected it via USB or so.

[cdp1990]

thanks.

[avatar1349]

changed my hd into 1 TB, thanks to your video!!

Thanks again Ron for your vid

[avatar1349]

Thanks a lot!! Been thinking about doing this for a long time.

Your 1st & 2nd part is so clear, I'll will be doing this in the coming week, having a 1 TB HDD on a 20" iMac.

How did you transfer your data onto the new HD? By making a image of your old HD?

[xmdude626]

Good Lord, all that work just to swap out hard drives? I think Apple needs to re-design their new Imacs on the next models.

[maudeleon]

yeah, in the old imac you could do all this stuff very easy, they made this one like this so it would be thinner, but i'd like my computer to be easy to upgrade even if it''s an inch thicker, i mean it's a desktop, who cares?