Harddrive upgrade

well i currently have a 120gb hd in my mac book pro , i want to upgrade it, there just a few questions i have:
is it easy to do?
should I be doing this to my lovely mac?
what brand name hd should be going in there?
and is it easy to reinstall the mac o/s?

Part of your quesitons is answered in my thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=906999&tstart=0
Thank you

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I have a T60p model 2613CTO with an original 60GB 7200 RPM harddrive. I'm looking to upgrade. What are your thoughts on harddrives?
I like the WD Scorpio Black 320GB 7200rpm/16mb with free-fall sensor vs. any number of 500GB 5400rpm/8mb drives and no sensor.
From your experience, what do you think about the rpm? Sensor yes or no? Size? Is there another brand out there with a good free-fall sensor?
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Actually, the Accelerometer is not part of a Lenovo hard drive. The APS
chip is part of the systemboard. However, only Lenovo supplied
hard drives have the required firmware that works with the APS system.
OEM drives will not function.
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But the drive in my T60 that I installed myself [non-lenovo] works with APS. It packs the drive when I move the system and the on screen activity halts for a second or two. Do you think APS is faking it?
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I have the MC375LL/A 13.3/2.66/4GB/320 Macbook Pro which I purchased November 2010. The hard drive only has about 30gb of space left because I have lots of photos, movies & music. I am looking to upgrade my hard drive to a WD Scorpio 1 TB Internal Hard drive 5400 RPM (UPC: 718037753119 or Model WDBABC0010BNC-NRSN). Is this hard drive okay to use in my Macbook Pro? Will it work with apple energy conservation software & it’s motion detection software? Is there another hard drive that I should be looking at aside from the one list? Please Help.

I can also get the one listed below which is a Seagate.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate+-+Momentus+LP+1TB+Internal+Serial+ATA+Hard+D rive+for+Laptops/5542941.p?id=1218655167046&skuId=5542941&st=seagate%201tb%20int ernal&cp=1&lp=2
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I just upgraded my MabBook HD from 500GB to 750GB. I "Reinstall" Mac OS X 10.8.4 and then used Migration Assit to bring over all my old "stuff", settings, etc.
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I found the problem... there was a "_CCC Arcive" folder with 8 folders from the past 2 years with misc stuff that amounted to the increase of used space. I have no idea where that came from.

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I have an early '09 Macbook with a 160gb hard drive. I'm looking to upgrade the hard drive to a 500 gb hard drive, but I also plan on getting a Brand new Macbook Pro in about a year before going off to College for film editing. Basically I want to know:
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You can use any SATA notebook drive. Start at macsales.com. No doubt any notebook drive will be compatible with today's Macs as well as tomorrow's. You can find some reviews at Bare Feats, Storage Review, and Tom's Hardware Review.

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I recently decided to upgrade my HD on my MacBook. I have an iMac that I decided to write a disk image of the MacBook HD to, in order to get my content on to the new drive. So I used my Leopard install disc to start disc utility and copy the HD image. Its been making read/write noises for about 4 hours now, but the mouse arrow has disappeared, the progress line appears frozen, and I'm wondering if it crashed. Anyone experienced this before?

Well in my disk utility says that you can change the format in burning WINDOWS CDs. Or I'm understanding that wrong?
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That's what I do when I need to copy a Windows CD; I just make a disk image of it using Disk Utility, and then burn the image, just as I would a Mac CD. No need to create a blank disk image and then alter it's format. Just make the image directly from the CD you want to copy.

Harddrive Upgrade Compatability (Please read....)

PLEASE HELP!!! I have a HP dv8305us laptop and my harddrive failed. I was looking at the Western Digital 320 gb/5400 rpm/8 mb cache harddrive. Is this compatible for my laptop? Also the transfer rate is 3 gb/s max. Would this work normal if i install it on my laptop?
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The picture in the Manual definitely shows a PATA/IDE hard drive (dual rows of pins) and the table at page 173 clearly says ATA (IDE) 5 or 6....in other words NOT SATA. I have worked on dv8000s and the older ones are PATA drives and then at some point in the series they became SATA. Exactly where I am not sure but I looked on 2 or 3 parts websites and they were selling PATA/IDE drives as replacements for your exact model. I am possibly mistaken, though and your drive could well be a SATA. You can resolve the issue yourself. Pull the old drive and see what it is. It will take 5 minutes.

Displayport sound and harddrive upgrade questions

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I recently purchased a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB hard drive (WD10TPVT) in order to replace the 500GB hard drive in my Unibody Macbook Pro 15" running Mac OS X 10.6.4.
After swapping the hard drives I wanted to install Snow Leopard from the scratch on the empty hard drive. I partitioned the hard drive and started the install, but after about 30 min the computer seems to freeze. I tried several times, and each time the behavior is similar. After swapping the hard drives again (back to the old hard drive) I connected the WD10TPVT via an external USB enclosure, and now it works fine - over an extended period of time. So I'm fairly sure the drive itself is working properly.
I did some research, and it seems that people had similar issues with this drive (e.g. a thread in this forum titled "WD 1TB WD10TPVT in Late 2009 15" Unibody Macbook Pro - NEED HELP!" from April 15). It seems to me that this issue is old but still unresolved, and I wonder if there are any new developments concerning this problem. Is there a "generic" solution?
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There are known issues with replacement HD's on 2009 MBP (and, posibly other models too).
According to Apple support, it is due to acceleration sensor, which in MBP requires HD to have custom firmware.
There was even a fix to solve this issue (which I cannot find now, and it actually didn't solve much).
So far, the best "fix" seems to be to install HD with Apple firmware (works 100%). There are reports that certain drives without acceleration sensor are working properly too, a bit expensive to try, though.
Still a mystery why Apple does not clearly warn about this issue.

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Shouldn't be a problem.
Any quality SATA II 2.5" notebook hard drive should fit the bill.

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Well this caused problems, no mouse trackpad use, and more.
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Chances are the "build" of Mac OS X 10.4 on the retail disks is not new enough to support your iBook. I would make sure to get the original disks with your eBay purchase. If they're not available, you can get a set of original install disks from AppleCare Support for about $60.
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Lost mail on upgrade

I recently updated a friend's computer from Tiger to Leopard(10.4 to 10.5) and though I have tried what I think is everything, all of the emails are gone. I had previously upgraded her from to tiger(to 10.4) and at that time I remember that it was a real pain to import her emails and this time they just do not exist.
During the previous update I had to export her emails from os x mail.app 1 to entourage and then to the new mail.app 2 because for some reason it would not import correctly. After I did that, though, all seemed to be fine. Then she had some imported mailboxes which she kept for reference and then made a whole new set of folders in 10.4 mail.app 2.x and all seemed okay.
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Thank YOU so very much for taking the time to tell me about the DC power inlet because I found your answer after troubleshooting whether or not I thought I needed a new power cord or had a faulty port because I discovered when applying pressure to just the power cord housing right at the point of entry being careful to not disturb the actual cord it still caused the computer to behave erratically so I think you are absolutely right.
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