MacBook’s Hard Drive and RAM are easily replaceable!
Published May 17th, 2006 in Apple, Noteworthy, Technology
For those that have already bought their MacBook and have placed it into action you might be interested to know that the MacBook’s Hard Drive and RAM sticks, nicely fit underneath the battery of the MacBook. Well that’s what AppleInsider say. You can remove the battery and the protective shield, and ta-da. You’ll find the RAM sticks and the HDD sitting their waiting for someone to replace them. So it seems pretty easy, but will this void your warranty? We don’t know, and it also seems weird to me that the hard drive will be placed under or even near the battery. It is just waiting to overheat!
UPDATE: MacWorld have posted an image (now displayed above) showing the SO-DIMM slots on the MacBook. However, they didn’t say whether the hard drive was their or not, but from the image above it looks like the HDD could be under the left ‘area’ of the battery. But this is quite doubtfull (in my opinion) [link]
UPDATE 2: I have made a new post showing the image from a video that MacWorld made, to show the placement of the hard drive and the RAM modules. [link]
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Hi,
I just purchased a gateway DS300x computer and wanted to use my old quantum fireball lct20 hard drive from a compaq on the new faster computer. The old drive has windows XP Professional with SP2 and the gateway come loaded with Media Center. I put in the old drive and also changed the boot sequence to begin with the quantum drive ( now labeled as d:) I get the message that follows:
we apologize for the inconvenience, but windows did not start successfully. a recent hardware or software change might have caused this.
If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automatically shut down to protect your files and folders, choose Last Known Good Configuration to revert to the most recent settings that worked.
If a previous startup attempt was interrupted due to a power failure or because the Power or Reset button was pressed , or if you aren’t sure what caused the problem, choose Start Windows Normally.
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt
Last Know Good Configuration ( your most recent settings that worked)
Start Windows Normally
none of the options take me out of this screen, so I have reverted to using the old computer and set everything back to normal on the new computer. I really need the information on the old hard drive and the speed of the new computer.
Additional information that may be helpful is:
new drive is a sata, old one is an ide, ata
I have Norton ghost 2005, can i just have the image of quantum ghosted and applied to new comp?
Your assistance will be highly appreciated
This wouldn’t work for a number of reasons. Firstly you pointed out that your new drive is a serial-ATA, while your old one was a parallel-ATA (IDE). This would cause problems.
Also, you cannot just transfer the whole OS from one drive to another and use it in another computer. The new computer has totally different hardware, etc and it will not work. What you can do, is start up the old computer, and transfer the data onto an external hard-drive, or straight onto the new computer (via a ethernet connection, for example). Your documents and movies,etc, can all be transferred, but software cannot be directly copied. That will also not work.
I hope this has helped.