How To: MacBook Pro Hard Drive Replacement

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One great way to breathe new life into an aging MacBook Pro is by upgrading its hard drive. This video will show you how to upgrade the Hard Drive in an original Macbook Pro. In this video we use a Core Duo version but the repair is almost identical for the later iterations. You can find the repair guides for the Macbook Pro here
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[notbendable]

I watch every video even though I've never owned a Mac.

[Bigwebwasher]

MJ, can you please show these type of guides for unibody-models? I can imagine the replacement of a hard drive oder SSD is quite more difficult?!

Oh and by the way: Thank you for your brilliant videos so far ;-)

[sup4fr34k]

GOOD HOST CHOICE!

[11Thirtymusic]

You just saved me $3,000! I just did it last night. 750 gig, 7200 rpm. I used "Time Machine" backup to restore my data. GREAT, FASTER! Just like you said. Keep up the great vids

[elsuecoloco]

Hej MJ. I have a Blak MacBook from 2007 that i would love to see some repair guides for. Thanks

[kankany]

HI MJ CAN U PLZ IN THE NEXT VID WHAT EVER U R FIXING WHEN U R DONE TO REASSEMBL THE HOLE THING PLZ QUZ ITS MORE TRICKIER. AND SORRY IF I ASKED 4 TOO MUCH

[boobysmith29]

damn... ive been looking on this channel on how to change my macbook pro 2010 hardrive but cudnt find, it now that i sell it the review is up. overall nice review girl keep it up

[smikules]

God I'm so glad she's keeping her hair down. She's SO HOTTER with it down!

I'm so in LOVE!

[donnei1992]

@3ddieLeonard Yes, as long as you have a SATA harddrive connection

[ThexBorg]

Note that this and many other pc and Mac product screws have 'lock tight' applied to them. Home brew folks should be advised to apply lock tight when restoring there screws. If you don't know what that is...