Adding a Harddrive....questions

Is there a maximum harddrive size the macbook allows? I just got a 160 gig HD from newegg today and I just want to know if it will work without an issue.
Has anyone here rigged there macbooks with a 160 gigger?
Any issues?
Hope to hear from you!

Yep. Actually put your OSX disc in, shut the computer down, remove the HD and replace it with you new one, then when you start it up hold down the C key and it'll boot to the disc that's already inside your MacBook.
If you look at Apple's PDF manual on replacing the drive you won't see the step (unless they've amended it) to remove the bracket on the old drive and put it on the new one. But it's pretty straight forward and you'll be fine.

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I have a WD My Passport 320 GB for Mac and I just saved a 20 Gb folder to it. In addition, I deleted (command+backspace) a few older folders I had stored there.
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New Harddrive Question.

I had some computer problems, reinstalled windows, and now I cannot manually manage my music. I'm giving a full run-down here if anyone can help.......
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Hey guys, I need experienced opinions. Right now I have my Boot drive partitioned in half. One half has my apps, the other half has my entire library of sounds, samples, 3rd party fx, etc...I haven't had much problems so far (and it's been like this for years), other than the ususal Logic bugs. I want to move my Library off that partition to an entirely discrete drive (7200rpm IDE) that's installed internally. This discrete drive used to hold my working sessions, but now I've got 2 external 7200rpm drives, 1 for sessions and 1 for back-ups.
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So my harddrive stopped working... brought it into the mac store, genius ran disk warrior, things didn't get any better, in fact probably just a little less better.
1) what is the least expensive way to try and recover data; the harddrive has been removed in hopes that data can be rescued
2) been looking on line for new harddrive. Probably have to by a new computer for editing anyway, but need something in the meantime. How does one go about purchasing a new harddrive & where do you look? How do you know which companies are reliable?
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Thank you SO much for guiding me.
and Thank you for the prompt reply.
Ok, answers/comments to your reply:
1) Since the HD is out, I will give the HD enclosure a try... I take it you would recommend purchasing from the three places you mentioned in #2.
My harddrive when in the powerbook, first gave me the small grey screen with several language telling me to restart or reboot (can't remember) but I am learning that that is called kernal panic... there was noise. Everytime I would reboot it would give me the same message. I brought it to the genius bar and he suggested using Disk Warrior. He told me that there was a chance that it could work... but if it got stuck on #5 (something about slow...) then I wasn't getting my data back... when the "slow" note came up he cancelled the operation and sent me on my way. After that the computer would boot to grey w/apple then blue with folder ? then folder w/smiley then a small grey box would appear and everything would freeze. I would have to pop the battery out to turn off the machine. I removed the HD in hopes that it could be put in an external case and I could be directed as to what to do next.
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We are moving and are going to be adding a server (Quad 2.5 G5 w/ 2x500 HDs). We are currently have the internet connection coming in (static IP) to an AEBS running two printers and an AEX on the same network running the other. All the machines use the wireless network for internet access and printing. Email is via a hosted Exchange solution and another company hosts our web site. We have one spare machine that does limited file server work, but most folks have stuff on their hard drives.
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Just an alternative to think about.

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I have a HP Pavilion Laptop, model dv6885se, it is now going on 4 years. The dv6885se has worked flawless for the complete time, but I have noticed lately strange issues...seems to hang on occasion. I believe the hard drive is going out, but all checks says no, however I want to replace the harddrive. I purchased a SATA device and restored my harddrive (via Norton ghost 15) to the new SATA drive, however it failed to boot...BIOS or ? may be the issue, don't know. So I want to go back to a drive that will work (ATA or IDE) I believe...tried to find the harddrives on the internet but it appears no one produces the devices any longer since everyone is going to SATA drives. Can anyone help me find a new ATA IDE drive?
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+1 on Chut's response -
If it was a desktop, where you've got some room for creativity (and add-in cards), I can see where you might have been able to clone an IDE HDD to a SATA drive, then replace IDE with SATA. But with a laptop?
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This Cnet website sez the main drive is SATA. I wasn't finding that basic bit of info on the HP support site...

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My G4 came with 3 internal 40G HDs. One quit working years ago and the start up HD recently began having kernel panics--the most recent of which I can't get around.
I thought I might be able to start up using the other HD and tried loading 10.0.3 on it but it hangs up at 'Optimizing System'.
I have another HD from another G4 which has Tiger loaded, and my thought was that if I put this in my "panic'd" machine I'd be able to use Tiger for start up and then be able to access my files on the 40G HD. Is that correct/likely?
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If the others are SCSI, and the 'new' one is ATA, then, yes, you can connect it like it was in the machine it is coming from. However, you would not jumper it as Slave - when an ATA bus has a single device (drive) on it, that device should be jumpered as Master. Exception - if the drive is a Western Digital brand and has a setting called "Single", use that instead of Master.
The designations Master and Slave on IDE/ATA buses confer no preference or priority, at least in Macs; they are simply addresses. If you have two drives on the ame bus, one set as Master and the other as Slave, either can be used as the primary boot drive.
Exception - if the machinne is ever set up as the Target machine in a Firewire Target Disk Mode config with another Mac, then only the drive set as Master on the ATA bus on the Target machine will appear on the Host machine's desktop.
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I see this in the manual--
Supports the following double hard drive
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● 2 TB: (1 TB, 5400 rpm, 12.5 mm × 2)
● 1500 GB: (750 GB, 7200 rpm, 9.5 mm × 2)
● 1500 GB: (750 GB, 5400 rpm, 9.5 mm × 2)
● 1 TB: (500 GB, 5400 rpm, 9.5 mm × 2)
Does that mean that if I have a 750 gb 5400 rpm drive that it will only support another exact same drive? or can I add a 1tb drive @ 7200 rpm for second drive? Thanks!!
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Hi,
Yes, you can add a 1Tb 7200rpm HDD in the second drive bay.
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Hey guys,
I'm thinking about buying an Ipod, but seeing as I have all my music on a separate harddrive, do I need to transfer my files to my laptop's hardrive in order to get Itunes/Ipod to recognise it or can I keep it on my separate hardrive?
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
As long as the HD is connected, iTunes should be able to music from it. (So yes) You would just go to file-->add folder to library in iTunes, find the drive and the folder with music and import it.
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Hi I have an HP Compaq NC8430 (CNU7180M85) with a broken Harddrive.
I can't figure out which other HD I can buy an use i this computer.
The Broken HD is a Toshiba MK8034GSX ATA device.
I will like to have a bigger on - 120 GB or more and with 7200RPM in speed, if it is possible.
On this site :
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I can read something about 100 GB 7200RPM SATA, but can I use this kind of HD ?
Then I have buy a new one, - Is the a guide how I clone the old to the new, and what I need to do it, cable maybe??
I have never trued this before..

Hi,
Based on the following link, it's a 5400RPM, 80Gb SATA I HDD. Basically you can upgrade to a bigger (capacity) and faster HDD but this is an old machine therefore you have to update BIOS before buying new bigger and faster HDD. The following link shows its support page (including BIOS):
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