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MacBook Pro Pause Woes

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MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2010

MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2010 Hard Drive Replacement

MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2010 Hard Drive Replacement

15 minutes - 1 hour

Moderate

My Problem

2.4 GHz (Late 2011) MBP Unibody 13" - Looooong pauses during normal use....no hard crashes. After checking the logs and noting some i/o errors I figured it was time to replace the hard drive. Again.

My Fix

The fixit site directions on swapping the hard drive were excellent.

My Advice

Turns out that: long pauses, and then severe difficulty in getting OS installed on replacement drive (both via time machine backup and Recovery tool), and hours of web researching, and a trip to the Genius Bar equals damaged hard drive cable.

(Not a bad drive, or corrupt files)

Also the re-install OS directions on the Fixit site did not include adding a recovery partition and installing a fresh OS via recovery tool. That would have been helpful. My first run used a cloned version of old drive. When I ran into problems I guessed that the drive errors had created problems on the new drive. Not so much.

1 TB 5400 RPM 2.5" Hard Drive Image
1 TB 5400 RPM 2.5" Hard Drive

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Spudger Image
Spudger

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Phillips #00 Screwdriver Image
Phillips #00 Screwdriver

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