It is ridiculously simple to replace the drive on your Macbook. A size zero phillips screwdriver to remove 3 little screws in the battery compartment that hold a stainless coverplate over the ram slots and the hard drive carriage. The carriage then slides out and the drive is held by 4 more screws in this carriage sled. Exchange the drives and reassemble. Indeed the simplest thing would be to boot from your install disc and recover from Time Machine. As Graham has said, Dabs are good but I have used Amazon increasingly for this sort of thing and would check them for a base price before looking at Span.com, Ebuyer.com et al.
Regards Steve On 6 Sep 2009, at 08:39, philippe chandless wrote: > The hard drive on my MacBook has failed It happened before and was > replaced under warranty. Warranty is now a distant memory and, > sadly, I can't afford to replace the Mac. I would like to know the > following: > > 1) If I boot from another disc is there software I can use to try > and recover what's on the disc or is it simpler to restore from the > latest Time Machine back up? > > 2) How difficult is it to replace the hard drive by someone who > scores 4-5 on the mechanical competence scale? > > 3) If it is feasible for me to do it what are the best drives at the > moment and where can I source one? > > 4) Is it better to put a large drive in or a smaller one and use > external drives for storage etc. ? > > Thanks > Philippe > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
