How To: Install a New Internal Hard Drive in Your MacBook

[MrSimpleTUTS]

I format it as mac os extended right?

[LasStyleTV]

When you install the OS, how do you get the black screen with gray text en top left corner?? I can only see a folder with a flashing question mark.. :(

[reouch]

Well I liked your video, It helped me install a new hard drive in my wife's macbook. Somehow it didn't tear holes in the time space continuum. I think there may be some psychology behind ebernet's comment...

[ecuamario]

Hi, i just bought on mbp off of ebay and it came with a seagate 500gb hard drive, have u ever used seagate? are they realiable?

thanks

[MKlukowski]

@ecuamario I just got a 250 gig seagate. Never had problems with them before, but first experience on a mac.

[adonist7]

why do you need to hold the c key

[dfoggin]

to boot from the CD drive

[ronaldguinhawa]

hi nice video...can you put 500 gb internal hard drive?tanx

[cordschultz57]

in a macbook 13.3 inch you can only put a 320 GB in i believe

[grayninja62]

@ronaldguinhawa yeah you could install a 500gb if you wanted to, just make sure its a SATA 2.5

[matt592067555555556]

You shouldeve put the old harddrive incaseing with the pull tab on the new one ... helps protect i tmore and easier to replace if needed again

[dayrion]

what did he type at 5:54? something abt formatting the hard disk..can anyone help me?is there sumthing specific that we need to type?

[redspade04]

idk if you got this figured out yet or not but ill say this for future installers. he didnt do his install right. it works though. as for the install part... when the osx installer comes up, select the tools pull down and select disk utility-select your new hd-click the partition tab-select how many partitions for that hd (1 is normal)-click options-read the 3 options given (guid is for intels)-click apply-click apply and from their the install will do a nice walk through.

[redspade04]

if it helps, i made a video on how to do this too. i tried to walk through as much as possible. if you are still needing help, just message me are reply. good luck

[cpavianyc]

i just bought a macbook 4 th generation w/ 1 gig ram and 120 hard drive. for about $1000 plus tax . my bad. i should've gotten a bigger hard drive. well i contacted apple and they told me that i should return the macbook from where i bought it(bestbuy) because ordering on line was the only way to get bigger hard drive.then i told them, what if i install a bigger drive my self in the macbook,they told me that the computer will not recognize the hard drive. continues>>>>

[chissi100]

Say you have an MacBook...1 year old. Worth avout 1100 $....Upgrade ram, 55 $, and harddrive, 100 $. Then sell it for 1500 $ !!

Fantastic!

[webcomconsulting]

WRONG! You didnt partition the drive properly. Oh well thank god its not mine.

[hairynathan]

lol so true

[webcomconsulting]

OMG that was painful to watch

[PowerdByWill]

Can I have some help here please.

I have have a MacBook, July '07 Model, Would this be able to handle a Seagate 250GB 2.5" Laptop Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM?

If Not what would I need.

[dajdawgzaccount]

there shouldn't be a limit to how much it can hold, as long as its a 2.5" SATA...the problem is its hard to find one above 700GB without it not fiting

[Severine18]

Why don't you all just go to the Apple web page to get the proper instructions

[PowerdByWill]

Because here you can see exactly what you have to do. Reading is imagining, YouTube is real.

[nayrskater]

hhahahah

[Wegro123]

Do you have to screw off the case for the old hard drive and put it on the new one? Please help me out.

[TagMandDK]

thefsxflyer > Yes, you can install Mac OS X on your Windows. I have. So shut the fuck up, if you don't know what you're talking about.

[MyDirt01]

thanks you helped so much. you dont even know.

[JonRahl]

Did he installed the new HDD without mounting it to the macbook's HDD tray first?

[mattscoke]

Yes, I believe he did... I hope he doesn't have to take it out again.

[jtbaski1]

Awesome! Thanks. The part where you had to put the CD in and then turn it off then reboot holding "C" is part of the installation process, so that wasn't a mistake or anything.

[xUSxGHOST2049x]

i want to buy a 250 and divid it in to half for windows and mac os x

[thefsxflyer]

I don't think yo ucan do that

[xUSxGHOST2049x]

yea u can, BOOTCAMP LEts U DO That in Tiger (intel) or Leopard

[thefsxflyer]

ya, but you can't have a windows machine and spilt the hard drive in two then install mac osx

[xUSxGHOST2049x]

dude its a mac video where the fuck u get the Windows machine from. LMAO

[thefsxflyer]

Ya bootcamp! Bootcamp lets you install windows on a mac but you can't install mac on a windows machine

[xUSxGHOST2049x]

NO CRAP LMAO i have a macbook

[bryceboi2]

with the correct emulators you can look it up its called Mac X86... get it... clever huh!

[thefsxflyer]

Ok, but are you getting full performance probably not.

[bryceboi2]

i dont know. to be honist probably not since the best way to run windows is on a mac then the PC would probably suffer running macOS... but i could be wrong, personally i dont see the point...

I mean Jeez why dont these people just buy a mac.

[thefsxflyer]

wow, why buy a mac. People need to choose based off WHAT THEY NEED! Windows for me for gaming. Mac for people that don't need anything else than internet and email

[bryceboi2]

actually mac is better for graphics and video editing ( i use mine for video editing), they are also good at running games.

[thefsxflyer]

If they could run games. Also by the way it doesn't matter. A pc can be good too. That depends on hardware which you can basically get the exact same in the PC. like there is a 8800Gt for Mac and then there is a 8800Gt for PC.

[kuenwah]

Just installing my 320gb hd into my macbook now - this vid was very useful for me, esp what to do when the os didnt recognise the hd. you are a lifesaver. i take the point others have made about the bracket but that doesn't mean this vid isn't useful....

[ebernet]

This is a very bad video. 1st, you are covering the work with your hand. 2nd, you are inserting a drive without replacing the bracket/magnetic shield that came with the original drive. A really bad no no. People might think this is the way to install a drive, when it is not. There are plenty of video tutorials that properly show replacing the magnetic shield. PLEASE pull this video author of the video!!

[gunslinge109]

I can get the hard drive out just fine without the sledge, and if you don't like the video rate it and be on your way :)

[ebernet]

You may be able to, but you should not be encouraging people to install the drive without the magnetic shield and the rubber screw guides that prevent it from becoming loose in the drive cage. If the point of your video is to be instructional, you need to point out the proper way to replace the drive - and that is not it!

[chubbydw90]

take the cover from the first HD and put that thing on the new one so u can take it out later on...

[bochumsde]

Thanks for the video. It helped me very much.

[royer2323]

williegripper is right, you forgot the caddy!! now it will be hard to take your hd back out...

[paddywalsh84]

on disxk utility what did you erase and format it as?? mac os extended??

[gunslinge109]

yeah

[paddywalsh84]

can you give the spec of what HD you used?

thanks for the vid dude!

[chrissykatina]

Thank you thank thank you! I had the same problem you had (not recognizing the drive). I erased and it worked. Thanks!

[eastfreech]

hey, when i out my new hard drive in the macbook and tried to install the OS that was on my old hard drive aswell, it said summin like "save OS 10.5.2 to which folder?" or summin like that but then i didnt give me any choises to choose from..? what do i do? thnks

[gunslinge109]

make sure you do not choose archive and install in toe install options, i think that is what the problem was.

[chillaxed007]

when you booted up into the mac os x installer did you format your hard drive to mac os journaled or something like that?

[williegripper]

you forgot the to attach the caddy to the new drive, it is not totally secure now,

[xneverbackdownx]

hahaha you totally put the new drive in UPSIDE DOWN!

[gunslinge109]

No I didn't...

[MacOsX26]

I dont think the HD would work if he put it in upside down

..

[devrishi5221987]

yeah because the laptop is sitting upside down

[killerfishman]

geeks all of you are geeks

[themacbookone]

Yep and if it went for geeks computers would not exsist

[gunslinge109]

copy your home folder (the folder with the name of the user on it)  to the external hard drive, then copy over all the apps you want to keep ( or the installers)

[VincentVega44]

Secondly...I don't have my OS disk with me. Is there an alternative method to formatting my new hard drive?

(had to be shorter than 500 characters).

[VincentVega44]

i have a powerbook g4. and i also have an external harddrive. i purchased an internal harddrive the other day and it should becoming any day. i want to xfer all of my files to my xternal hardrive, and then replace my mac's internal hard drive. im more familiar with PC's. i know id xfer the entire C drive to the external.. but im not too sure what to do with the Mac(to get all apps music, vids etc)?

[ryanbycraft]

If you put a new harddrive into it will it wipe off the mac opperating system or is that stored somewhere eles

[gunslinge109]

yeah you need to reinstall the OS, i do it in my video, you just boot from a CD

[ryanbycraft]

Thank you mate

[dheaton5]

how?

[HelloGuest]

i bought the same exact hard drive except it is a 250 BG one and can't get it to show up on the system profiler or disk utility..any suggestions. i see it didnt work the first time for you but was there anything you did to make it show up?

[gunslinge109]

I am using a different method of getting it out if it ever fails :D

[benjikan]

You didn't attach the Caddy to the new drive..Good luck getting it out the next time...ooopppsssss

[gunslinge109]

no it is standard.

[ddrplayer512]

So, can I take any 2.5 inch hard drive from Circut City or Best Buy and install it? Some laptops I heard use nonstandard hard drive interfaces. Is that the same way with the MacBook?

[meremortals33]

you should put the new drive in the old drive housing

[gunslinge109]

as long as the hard drive itself fits in the slot, there should be no problem.

[dhrouxie]

the hard drive you are using is a 2.5 inch right? can you put a 3.5 into a macbook? i've had a hard time finding many 2.5 inch SATAs. also, is there a maximum capacity of hard drive that you can install in your macbook? could i install a 700gb without problems? thanks.

[gunslinge109]

yeah you can actually

if you can get the old hard drive in an enclosure that has firewire, I think you can choose to install from a bootable drive, you may want to do some research on this though, as I am not completely sure how it works.

[sacordoba86]

Is it possible to copy all the information of the old HD into de new one?? That way I don't have to install the OS and my applications again. How can I do it?

Thanks

[asianfoskco]

so i tried installing the hard drive or whatever. had leopard in ready to install, but when it gets to the part where you select a destination for it to install. the hard drive was not there. do you know what the problem is?

[hybirddtv]

u need to format ur hardrive first look for diskutiliy in the menus or something

[gunslinge109]

Yeah, I had to do that in this video, This video shows you how to do that as well.

[asianfoskco]

ohhh haha. yea i didn't get that far into the vid cause my internet was running slow.

but i figured it all out. finally.

[Secondsnow]

how old is ur laptop now

[gunslinge109]

it's about 1.5 years old now.

[jumoketrichards]

good video.i may have to upgrade my hdd to 250gb when i get my macbook.

[chillaxed007]

dude did you put the caddy on the new

hard drive?????

[JamieMTheStar]

move all your info on to an external hard drive

[FullmetalJudgement]

I wanna get myself a new 7200 RPM HD, but I really don't wanna lose all my stuff. What to do, get the HD, or not...

[medusa11122]

ya It's getting fixed now...

Lets say my care plan runs out. How much would this cost for me to fix it myself???

What do you mean u moved your computer when it was in sleep mode?

[gunslinge109]

Well if you were gonna fix it yourself its gonna run you anywhere from $100-250 depending on the brand, size, and speed of hard drive you replace it with, and yes while the computer is going into sleep mode, the 1st 10 seconds you close it it is writing all the data from the RAM to the HDD and apparently moving it is sufficient to compromise your HDD.

[Blakmagic88]

Okay you said the hard drive crashed...is that because you didn't put the new hard drive in the HD sledge?

[gunslinge109]

no, the new one didn't die, the old one died because i moved the macbook while it was going into sleep mode.

[medusa11122]

I've had my Macbook for 5 months now..and the hard drive just crashed. Does this happen often.?

[gunslinge109]

Yeah, it actually did, but i sent it to apple and they fixed it for free.

[Korsriddare]

It looks like you forgot to put the new drive on the HD sledge. Good luck getting the new one out if it crashes.

[gunslinge109]

dont worry, it doesnt take much force 2 get it out at all, just take sum duct tape and tape it 2 both sides of the drive and pull, but if the hard rive ever dies we dont care to preserve ir we could use pliers lol.

[callmedan3]

Does iLife also reinstall or is it just the bare OS?

[gunslinge109]

everything reinstalls to how it was the day you bought it.

[callmedan3]

Thanks.

[Humidi]

Heyaaa, what was the synthvoice software you used for making the World of Crycraft-clip? :P

[gunslinge109]

stop commenting on videos that have nothing 2 do w/ this video...and it was not my recording

[Humidi]

I left these at same time, you see. Actually, the first one "got stuck", never got reply that it got added...

[callmedan3]

So I just put in the new hard drive, hold down "c" on start up once the disc is in, and then look for format in the window?

[gunslinge109]

You need to use disk utility to erase the drive