My Problem

needs more storage

My Fix

thanks for this easy repair

My Advice

750 GB 7200 RPM Seagate SATA Hard Drive Upgrade Kit (New)

My Problem

My old hard drive was full with start up issues, no space and I was always deleting some stuff to get things done!

My Fix

smoothly, 10 minutes and I'm here writing about it!

My Advice

no much to say!

the ifixit guides are easy to run and follow!

if you have an iPad or iPhone beside you just download the ifixit app and you can follow the guide step by step!

My Problem

My 3 years old MacBook Pro 15'' Late 2008 airport burned out. Airport was burned out, hard drive needed to be upgraded (no more space), battery cycles done! So got a excellent idea. No internet, no computer space and my patience was gone with that difficult! Decide it to do it myself when I found i-fixit.

My Fix

So easy with all i-fixit tutorials. You must identify your computer model thou. Their self guided buying site is awesome. Bought all the parts for the right laptop as they guided me. Delivery was super fast. Loved the tool kit that came with the hard drive. Even a HD rubber incasing with a usb hardware in it is included in this kit - amazing. I inserted my old hard drive in it and use it as a external hard drive - how convenient ...so cool. It is so practical and handy. No need to image copying, etc. Just plug and play it. Unfortunately they did not have my airport type so I bought somewhere else. Bought here the fantastic hard drive and battery. It took me 3 hours to upgrade everything. The hardest part was the airport because it is a small part and the cable runs inside of the bottom of laptop display. But I did it and it was ok. As soon as I closed the back of the computer and turned it back on as per ifixit instructions, formatted the hard drive, installed the Snow Leopard, I was so happy with my brand new computer! I had never done this and I am glad I did it. Thanks ifixit.

My Advice

-Identify your laptop model well...Follow i-fixit guide. I did and everything went smoothy.

- Pay close attention to every single ifixit guide instructions. Do not skip. Times I did it I had to go back and redo it.

- Be careful with the tools you can burn your logic board. Thank God I did not. Almost did.

- When changing your airport card (at least with this model) be careful not to bend the cable pins...I did it and I messed up my isight camera...same cable! I will buy another cable and change it but I could avoid this if I had been more careful.

-Do it yourself, you will save money and learn something new.

My Problem

Internal 5400 rpm 500GB hdd failed. Had flashing folder with question mark, disk utility could not repair drive. Purchased 7200 750GB replacement.

My Fix

Used ifixit free ipad app for instructions, with the tools that came along with it. Very easy repair, instructions were very straight forward. Disk utility immediately recognized the drive and was able to format it. Finally upgraded all the way to Lion.

My Advice

Make sure to take the bracket screws off the sides of the old hdd and put them on the new hdd so that it will seat properly in the bracket arm that holds it in place.

My Problem

I had a 320gb 5400 rpm hard drive that I wanted to upgrade to increase the speed and capacity of my laptop.

My Fix

easy installation

My Advice

Using iFixit helped me find a software package to copy all of the files from my old hard drive to the new one. This made the upgrade very easy. I was able to remove the old hard drive and install the new one and boot up he computer without having to waste hours reinstalling software.

My Problem

Something went wrong with my partition and apple told me they would replace it (I had a 160gb 5400rpm HD) for $180. Instead I bought a 750GB 7200 RPM HD from you guys for $160 and replaced it myself.

My Fix

Great. The guide made it so simple. The entire repair only took about 25 minutes and it was good because I got to clean the inside of my laptop...it runs SO much cooler now! The new drive worked perfectly and I got to transfer everything I needed with the case enclosure included for my old HD. The kit that came with the new drive worked flawlessly! Thanks iFixit!!!

My Advice

Make sure you keep all the screws in a good place because they are very easy to lose. Also make sure there is nothing containing liquids around, when the laptop is open it seems very easy to mess something up.

My Problem

I had replaced the main HDD in my Macbook with an SSD and used a data doubler kit to replace the optical drive with the original 250GB disk that came with the Macbook to use as a Data disk with the SSD doing system drive duties. The 250GB disk was full so needed replacement with something bigger.

My Fix

The repair was amazingly easy. As I had opened the Macbook before it was easy to get into. Removed the back cover and then 6 screws that held the data doubler. HDD replaced and everything put back together. SuperDuper worked very easily in cloning the drives using the provided USB enclosure.

My Advice

Clone the drive before putting it in.

My Problem

The hard drive which came with a new 17" MAcbook Pro ran at a speed of 5400 RPM and was 500 GB in size. I wanted to improve the speed and size. Hence the upgrade. But, I use the kit we purchased from you along with SuperDuper to make a back up of the former drive.

My Fix

Smooth as silk

My Advice

The only advice I have is to better prepare the paper work for FedEx. We have shipped replacement parts for our Macs from the U.S. before and there should not be any duty. On two occasions we have had to pay 22% duty on replacement hard drives from iFixit.com. I believe if the paperwork indicates "replacement parts for computer repair" the problem should be solved.

My Problem

320gb is not enough to me. I need more space so I change my hard disk from 320gb to 720gb 7200 rpm that I get from iFixit.

My Fix

Very smoothly. Just open iFixit website and get the correct model of your laptop. Follow the guide step by step and voila, finished!

My Advice

Just follow iFixit website.

My Problem

Two repairs: both failed internal drives. One MacBook and one Macbook Pro.

My Fix

Painful. but I should first say that everything that iFixit sent and all of the repair videos and advice were perfect. The actual physical replacement of the drive (in both computers ...) was a complete snap.

The black MacBook was never repaired because it seems the drive was never the problem, but there is no way I could have known this without the tools and drive enclosure that I got from iFixit. Once I hooked up the "failed drive" externally using the drive enclosure, it worked. The new drive would not work when installed, so obviously the failure is upstream, and I don't have the time to figure it out (this computer was just going to be a "bonus" as it was long given up for dead--I thought to resurrect it only because I was already ordering stuff to fix my "important" computer: the macbook pro which ....

Was a complete pain. The issue was that my drive was failing, not just being upgraded, so the SuperDuper plan was not going to work. I cloned my old drive with Data Rescue 3. But the clone, once put on the new drive (and yes, I formatted and partitioned correctly) would not boot. ProSoft (makers of Data Rescue) point out that the do not intend or guarantee the drive to be bootable--cloning is meant just to save all the data you can. The next four days were filled with frustrating iterations, attempts to "bless" the clone, reinstalling OS's, etc ...

Finally, I hit on backing up to Time Machine while placing my old badly failing drive in the disk enclosure (it would boot from this position, just not internally, or I would have done this first). I then restored the new drive from Time Machine and only lost a little data to corruption ...

My Advice

If your disk will not boot, it may be the drive, but it may also be something else. A data rescue program (if you do not have a very recent backup) is a good first step (unless the data is crucial, in which you case you should immediately hand over the drive to professionals--BEFORE defragmenting or doing anything else.). Then, once you have created a clone, and you can be sure that the vast majority of your stuff is safe, see if you can create a time machine backup by using an OS install disk to select the disk and "backup to Time Machine".

Also, a drive enclosure is a very useful diagnostic tool. If your drive has disappeared or won't boot, try removing it and running it as an external drive. Does it boot? If not, can you access (and save) your data while using it as an auxiliary drive? Or, as was the case with one of my laptops, is it totally fine? If so, there is a hardware problem upstream from the drive.