My Problem

200 Gb HDD getting too small,

My Fix

Smooth as silk, despite operating on a cramped small yacht, during

severe weather conditions.The guide was spot on.I did not have to

disconnect ANY cables to the logic board.see photo where i am just about to disconnect the IR and temp sensors.total repair time(not including cloning) about 40 mins

My Advice

Do not waste time disconnecting the HDD cable, it is not necessary.

This is my 2nd experience treating diseases of the Mac. I previously

replaced a failed HDD in a Mac Mini.

My Problem

I could replace a bad drive with a larger one than Apple would replace it with. I attempted to upgrade to Lion and the install process trashed the drive. All data was recovered from the old drive prior to replacement.

My Fix

The replacement took about 20 minutes and went very smoothly.

My Advice

Don't be afraid to tackle a Mac Repair. The IFixit directions are easy to follow and accurate.

My Problem

I have 3 Mac Minis that I as a software update servers ... one for each of my schools. They are older and had small, 120G hard drives. With the releass of 10.6 & 10.7, these hard drives became too small to hold all of the necessary updates for all of the various OS versions of our schools' computers.

Instead of buying expensive, new servers, I replaced the HDs in all 3 servers.

My Fix

HD replacements were very easy using the guides.

The first one took about an hour.

The next two were much faster.

My Advice

The guide I used was complete and easy to follow.

Read all the steps and take your time.

Be sure you have the right tools ... all sold right here at iFixIt

My Problem

I wanted more space on my hard drive and just felt like upgrading.

My Fix

Smooth soo easy that did it in a matter of minutes

My Advice

Practice taking parts off again again and make sure you know where certain screws go

My Problem

My mother and I were both looking to upgrade from almost full 160GB drives on our 15" and 17" MBPs

My Fix

Very smoothly. Got faster with the second one!

My Advice

Did not need to disconnect the trackpad ribbon wire for either model.

My Problem

My Toshiba HD was failing, so I looked up some 3rd party hard drives for replacement and chose the Seagate 750 7200 RPM for my mid 2009 MacBook Pro.

My Fix

The installation went smoothly. You guys make tech repair pretty easy.

My Advice

After installation, I had to erase and partition in the new drive but kept receiving a Proxus Error: Cannot allocate memory. Turns out I needed to replace the hard drive connector and ribbon in the Mac, which is rare. If anyone ever gets that message, I would suggest they get the connector for $17.00, it was worth it.

My Problem

I was running out of space on my Core Duo 2 MacBook. Too many family photos.

My Fix

Everything went very well. I followed both the iFixit instructions and Apple's.

My Advice

Back everything up, it will put your mind at ease.

My Problem

My old drive had 20GB of free space... not nearly enough for video editing. I initially bought an external hard drive to store all my working projects, but moving projects back and forth between my laptop drive and external hard drive was inconvenient and increased the risk of copy-induced errors. I decided to reduce my chances of future frustration by expanding my laptop drive from 200GB to 750GB.

My Fix

The repair went almost ifixit-guide perfect... with just a couple snafus along the way:

Problem #1: I didn't realize the hard drive was held in its' bay by a couple of pins mounted on the left side. This led to some frustration: for details, read below if inclined.

After removing all the screws recommended by the guide, I attempted to lift the drive out of the bay... sounds like it should have been simple enough, right? Not so much.

I used the flat end of a heavy-duty spudger (also from ifixit) to try lifting from the front, back and left sides of the drive; the drive remained fixed to its' bay on each attempt. When I tried lifting from the right side, the drive lifted about 20-degrees from the plane of the case, but seemed to remain tethered to the left side... I started to think that there was some adhesive adhering the bottom left side of the device to its bay.

I used the spudger again on the left side, this time with the pointed end, to lance through any adhesive... end-result: the drive didn't budge at all, and the pointed end of my spudger snapped off inside the drive bay (cue impotent rage). Emasculated, and lamenting the fate of my poor spudger, I resolved to try again! (cue Braveheart music)

I tried lifting from the right side again and, this time, pulled the drive to the right as I lifted. The drive came right out this time, and exposed the pins that kept the left side of the drive from lifting up out of the bay. (cue feeling stupid)

Problem #2: Before I installed my new drive, I used SuperDuper to turn it into a bootable clone... but it didn't boot. I just got served with a flashing question mark.

To solve the problem, I connected my old drive using a SATA-to-USB kit and, restarted while holding down the option key. When the computer asked my to select the boot drive, I released the option key and selected my old drive to boot. Then I fired up SuperDuper again and re-cloned my old drive to the now-intalled new drive. This time, the clone seemed to work (all of my files and crapplications were copied to the new drive) but still wasn't recognized as a bootable drive.

So, I went to 'Apple' menu > 'About this Mac' button > 'More Info' button > 'Storage' Menu > 'Disk Utility' button. In the Disk Utility window, I selected the new drive from the list of drives on the left side, then hit the 'disk permissions' button. Apparently the disk permissions on the new drive were thoroughly wrong -not sure how that happened- so I hit the 'Repair Disk Permissions' button and let the disk utility do its work. When the repair was finished, I disconnected my old drive and attempted to reboot from the newly-installed drive. This time it booted up without a problem.

Overall, the hardware install took about 45 minutes. The software part of the project, not including a 6-hour cloning of the hard drive, took about 1 hour to figure out.

My Advice

The project guide got me to my desired destination... but took the scenic route. A couple additions to the guide would be helpful:

1.) When removing the hard drive from its' bay, stipulate that the drive should be pulled upward and outward ONLY TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DRIVE. (Doing otherwise may cause undue injury to your spudger and will definitely make you feel stupid.)

2.) Tout the benefits of using "disk utilities" in the case of issues when attempting to boot from a SuperDuper-cloned drive. This trouble-shooting option may be well-described somewhere, but I couldn't find it and just ended up stumbling onto it by my lonesome.

My Problem

My Mac died...so sad. Apple wanted $130 to replace the 80GB with an 80GB. Another tech service company, would upgrade to a 500 HD for $249 or 750 HD for $299! Your price was fair and exactly what I expected to pay

My Fix

Easy as pie. 8 step install that took about 5 min

My Advice

Ifixit is the place to go for items and price....also the delivery was exceptionally fast. Ordered on Tuesday, at my house on Friday, awesome!

My Problem

Filled 120GB on my 2006 MacBook Pro

My Fix

Smooth as silk. Easy as pie. Never opened a computer before and you would have thought I was a pro.

My Advice

Follow the guides and you will have no problems