Hi Scott, As long as you've backed up the spinning HD, replacing it with an SSD is reasonably painless.
1. Order, or go to a store and purchase an SSD of your choice. Most SSD's through Amazon, BestBuy etc will let you know if it's Mac compatible. OWC often sells them with little tool kits that have all the necessary precision screwdrivers. The SSD is physically the same size as the current spinning HD in your MBP, so the swap doesn't require any adaptors etc. 2. After the SSD is at your home, backup the spinning HD. Preferably with a Time Machine backup process. 3. Turn off your MBP. 4. There's ten screws on the bottom of your MBP that need taken out. Note that there are a few screws at the back that are longer than the teeny other ones, they must go in the same location. After they've been removed, pull off the bottom of the machine. 5. With the front of the MBP nearest to you, the HD is positioned on the left hand side closest to you. There'll be two more screws just behind the HD. Loosen those and pull out the holder downer thing. 6. Gently pull up on the flap to pull out the old drive and carefully disconnect the strap. 7. Connect the new SSD and place it in the spot. 8. Re-fasten the holder downer thing. 9. Place the bottom back on and replace the screws. Now you'll need to re-install the MacOS from a Flash Drive or external source. Note that the Recovery Partition is not present on this new SSD, so that's not an option. Once the MACOS is installed, you can migrate everything from the old Time Machine backup during the setup process. Once it's completed, you're all set. YOu'll notice a huge difference in performance. Upgrading the RAM to, at least, 8 GB is good as well. I went a little overboard myself and took out the optical drive, moved the spinning HD to where the optical drive was, installed the SSD and manually created a Fusion Drive in addition to upgrading to 16 GB of RAM. It allowed me to have much more storage and huge improvements in performance. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 31, 2016, at 20:57, Scott Berry <sb356...@gmail.com> wrote: Alex, How do I go about replacing the hard drive with an SSd? I need to probably do that as well. > On May 31, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com > <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > I'd first grab Malware Bytes, which is free and not, to my knowledge, on the > App Store. Go to www.malwarebytes.org <http://www.malwarebytes.org/> to find > the Mac installer for it. Run that and see what happens. > > I'd then either manually copy the important things, or do a Time Machine > backup then manually restore once the OS is re-installed. > > Installing the OS isn't bad, actually. There are tons of guides on putting > 10.10 or 10.11 (same process) on a thumb drive; from there, you'll boot into > the thumb drive (so try to find a fast one), use its Disk utility to wipe > your internal drive, then choose to install OS X on the thumb drive's version > of the OS. It sound complicated, but it's really not once you do it once. > Just be very sure to do all the backing up first. > > Finally, it could be that, well, it's a 2011 MacBook. It may just be old and > slow. My mom has a 2012, and I replaced the hard drive with an SSD this year, > plus doubled the ram to 8GB. It flies now! You might consider an upgrade like > that, unless your dad wants to wait for the release rumored to be coming > later this year when he can replace the machine with a new, or > last-generation, model. >> On May 31, 2016, at 20:28, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com >> <mailto:sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Oh man! My dad’s 2011 MBP is messed up! Mackeeper is on it, and won’t go >> away! The mac is so darn slow! >> I want to reinstall the OS, format the HD and make it like a new computer. >> I’m not sure how to do this! I also need to figure out how to backup all his >> stuff, IE docs, photos, etc, bookmarks, etc and not restore the virus or >> what ever is going on. I don’t want to restore a bootable backup. I’m not >> sure what to do! Any ideas? >> Sarai D. 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