"HOW TO" REPLACE the HDD in an IMAC in 5 min.
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Uploaded by H2TheChrizzle on Sep 10, 2009
!!! Disclaimer !!! - Doing this yourself will most likely "Void Your Warranty" on you iMac!
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Ok, so the HDD (hard disk drive) in my iMac failed on me and wouldn't start anymore, so I decided to try and replace it myself. And I've had my "white" iMac for about 3 1/2 years now, so I have no warranty left on it anyway.
Here are the specs:
Model-id: iMac4,1
20" Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2 SDRAM
Original HDD: 250GB Western Digital "Caviar SE"
New HDD: 500GB Western Digital "Caviar Black"
Original OS X: Tiger 10.4.10
New OS X: Leopard 10.5.8
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Music made by myself and still untitled.
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Very Nice !! I may try this on My 2GHz iMac !!! tnak you. V.
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I don't want one of those pieces of shit.
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This vid helped me, thanks :) oh and it was a crack up hahaha loved it, P.S love your hair too :p
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@dreadhawk123 agreed, I've used macs for 20 years, but their software (OS) and hardware are locked down, taking away the freedom to hack and use the computer (upgrades, w/e) the way you want to). I now officially hate over-priced, locked-down, limitied software piece of shit apple products. I'm interested in android and linux (and some windows) though.
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bloody hell. apple is SO FAIL making this like heinously offensivley difficult to change. I enjoyed hte vid though. amusing. That's definitely not something I want to do. btw, had western digital drive crash in short time, I'll never buy their drives again.
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@maniak2pc Cool, good to know. Thanx for sharing!
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This is genius! Funny and informative. Very nicely done - oh, and congrats on getting the new drive in. Definitely not trivial.
metube7 5 months ago
@metube7 Thanks! This was 2 years ago though but it still works fine. And I did just get myself the newest and most powerfull 27" iMac I could get actually. Yay!
H2TheChrizzle 5 months ago
this video cracked me up. - thanks for posting
ekendra 10 months ago
@ekendra Heh, You're very welcome.
H2TheChrizzle 10 months ago
Is as ssd also possible on this one?
ivoafcajax 1 year ago
@ivoafcajax I don't really know much about ssd hard drives, so I have no idea if they will fit/work on the white iMacs.
H2TheChrizzle 1 year ago