Hard drive replacement in a MacBook Pro

I'm tired but happy. Here are the steps I had to do tonight:
• just to be safe, I ran a Time Machine backup on the MacBook Pro and the Mac mini.
• I connected the MacBook Pro to the Mac mini in target mode to get all the data from the internal 160GB hard drive to an external 500GB. And that's all the data, an exact clone of the drive, using the Restore command in Disk Utility.
• then I opened the external drive enclosure to take the 500GB drive, and opened the MacBook Pro to remove the 160GB.
• I fitted the 500GB Samsung Spinpoint 2.5-inch 9mm thick hard drive into the MacBook Pro.
• I was then able to consolidate my 200GB iTunes library on one drive instead of using an external one, and do the same to my Aperture library.

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Science & Technology

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• MacBook
• Pro
• logicboard
• logic
• board
• replacement
• hard
• drive
• repair
• apple
• computer
• laptop
• Aurélien
• 2008
• aurelienpodcast
• kisses.fr

[aurelienpodcast]

A valid point. Good thing it's songs and videos. And that I have a massive CD collection, a lot comes from that.

[tombofrog]

200GB iTunes library? I wonder how much that would cost if each song was bought directly off itunes :L

[goobernutz]

ou est la musique? we wantz da musix!!