MacBook Hard Drive and WarrantiesA

I've searched the forums and have yet to find a full answer. I'm sure it's there, it just escapes me. So... I must ask.
I have yet to enable FileVault - I lack the necessary free space. A great deal of my hard drive space is work material that I can be held legally responsible, should someone care to view it.
With the preface done: My top case has a small chip out of it from where the lid closes. My MacBook is only a few months old, so I'd like it repaired. Not that I don't trust the local Mac store techs, but out of an abundance of C.Y.A. I don't want said data to be too far out of my hands.
So then... Would I be voiding my warranty for replacing my hard drive? I assume not since Apple allows one to upgrade RAM, and the HD is as easily accessible as the RAM. I'd probably need to double my hard drive to run File Vault.
Would the Mac Store work on my laptop if I just remove the HD enclosure and store it in an anti-static bag until they finish?
Thanks in advance!

I'm in a similar boat, I have to get my bezel fixed although I am holding out until holidays, but all my personal files I will be shipping to an external HDD, or zip them with a password. More than likely it's nothing they want to see anyway, unless they are pornographic pictures of Angelina Jolie.
Ask the apple store but they shouldn't need to boot up your computer, they can test the LCD is working after repairs without having a HDD plugged in. They may not cover it though, I always had the impression cosmetic damage isn't covered under warranty unless it poses a safety/hazard issue?

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2) install the new RAM.
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8) done?
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9) back up the new internal drive using Time Machine.
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10) If yes, is her itunes account, etc. ready to use? Can she sync iphone as before?
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I can make this easier for you:
1) Download and install SuperDuper.
2) Using SuperDuper, make a clone of the current internal drive to the large external.
3) Test the clone by booting to the external drive
4) If good, install the new internal drive.
5) Boot from external, and use SuperDuper in reverse (clone back to new internal).
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Disk Utilities says: Reformat your Macbook hard drive and restore. How?

I am using Time Machine which is making accurate backups of my silver Sept 2008 Macbook.
Now trying to find an approved step-by-step process to:
1. Reformat my disc.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
3. Reinstall my Boot Camp partition
4. Reinstall my Macbook from Time Machine + MobileMe + iPad + portable hard drive.
NOTE: I can't find my original iLife discs. I am stuck in sunny Dubai, so there is no intelligent Mac store nearby.
Is there a location that shows this? For 24 hours I have been reading posts but none take you thru on a step by step basis. Surely the manufacturer has a page which displays this?
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1. Reformat my disc.
o Insert the Snow Leopard DVD and double-click the Install Mac OS X icon. A window appears with two choices: Utilities and Continue. Click Utilities.
o You now have two other choices: Go Back and Restart. Click Restart.
o After a few minutes, the installer will display the “Install Mac OS X” screen.
o Choose Utilities > Disk Utility.
o In the list on the left, select the volume you want to erase.
o Click the Erase button near the top of the window to display erase options.
o Make sure Volume Format is set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and click Erase.
o In the confirmation dialog, click Erase again. Disk Utility erases the disk, which takes just a few seconds.
o Choose Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility. You should find yourself back on the “Install Mac OS X” screen.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
o On the “Install Mac OS X” screen, click Continue.
o The Software License Agreement appears. Click Agree to proceed with the installation.
o Select the volume you just erased.
o You will now have the opportunity to modify your selections of optional software.
o Click Install.
3. Reinstall my Boot Camp partition
Check out this Apple Support document: Boot Camp
Installation & Setup Guide
4. Reinstall my Macbook from Time Machine + MobileMe + iPad + portable hard drive.
o Make sure the Time Capsule is attached to your Mac to help expedite the restore.
o Insert your Mac OS X Install DVD and insert it in your MacBook’s optical drive.
o. Restart your MacBook. Immediately after you hear the startup chime, press and hold the C key until you see the gray Apple logo on the screen.
o. Click through the language selection screen.
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o Select your Time Machine backup volume and click Continue again.
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Guys, I am very excited about the release of Leopard and in preparation, want to obtain separate external hards drive for use with Time Machine. I've got a Mac Pro 3Ghz with 3 Terabytes of hard disk space, 4Gig Ram. What would I need in terms of size for an external hard drive (I'm not sure if I will need all the extraneous stuff, maybe just want to back up most of the system files, etc and perhaps some other directories).
Questions:
1. What commercial external USB hard drive should I look at? (I'm not a build-your-own kind of guy.)
2. Should I obtain separate external hard drives for my 24" iMac as well as my C2D MacBook?
3. Should I have the external hard drive in place prior to the Leopard upgrade so Leopard finds it right off the bat?
4. Should I upgrade my RAM on the Mac Pro to 6 or 8 Gig? Is that necessary or needed?
5. When I receive Leopard (I bought the family pack because I have so many Macs) will it install over my current Tiger system leaving everything in place or do I have to start from scratch (I can't believe Apple would do that to us!).
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Hi Adam Jackson, nice site you have and thank you for taking the time/effort to provide the information. It is very informative and valuable!
1. I notice that other people have good luck with LaCie products so I bought the 1Terabyte external. I see it on Google for $322 and not real concerned about the cost.
2. The 24" iMac is the C2D version as is the MacBook. I actually sold my earlier models on eBay to buy the C2D models because I wanted 802.11n. Both machines are pimped out to max, including the MacBook w/3Gig of RAM. Now my Mac Pro came with Airport Extreme built-in and I have it turned on so my other machines can share the connection via WiFi. That is very cool.
I was wondering if I would have to buy separate externals for Time Machine (TM) backups on those machines but you answer is great! I'll partition up the external hard drive. A new question about doing that is: do I move the external hard drive to each machine each time I want to backup? If so, I assume TM will allow me to backup manually and I could plug in the external HD on the iMac, and then move it to the MacBook and return the external to the Mac Pro as home base, backing up to the appropriate partition. Does that sound right? Or can I do it all via WiFi (THAT would be way cool!).
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Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's

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My guess would be it has created an entirely new backup of your drive when you upgraded to Mavericks.
See Here: http://pondini.org/TM/1.html
And here: http://pondini.org/TM/9.html
Peruse the whole site. There is a lot of information there.

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On my Macbook pro 15 2011, System Profiler is suggesting that it uses SATA III for the hard drive and SATA II for the Optical Drive. Is that true?

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Are you sure it came with Lion?
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the device you need is an External enclosure for a 2.5" (laptop form factor) SATA drive.
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I want to upgrade my current hard drive and memory (currently 250gb and 4 gb) but i'm having trouble to find out which one is going to fit.
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Hi all,
I am an happy user of a late 2008 MacBook pro.
However, with the passing of time, it became slow and the battery also deteriorate (it still quite OK, but it is not like at the beginning).
But let's start from the beginning: the hard drive
By googling for a while, I noticed that several people experienced very slow performance of their late 2008 MacBook Pro. That is also my case. Apparently, this is due to the hard disk which is dying, and then I considering to change it. However, I haven't found answers to these questions:
- Is it possible to mirror all the containt of the current disk to the new one?
- I only have the original installation disks of the first Leopard. I made all the updates through the network. Moreover, since it passed lot of time, I am afraid that some sector of the installation disks may be damaged. This means that I may fail in the installation of Mac Os X on the new hard drive. If I have to reinstall everything from scratch with the new hard drive and without installation disks, how should I do?
- If I go a Mac Reseller shop, will do they perform this operation? And how much does it costs to make it? Or I may also go to some generic computer reparation guy?
- Is it convenient to save all the data (movies, documents, pictures, emails, etc) somewhere (e.g. external HD) and then perform a completely new installation?
Next, let's consider the battery.
Here is a screenshot taken with iStat Pro:
Do you think it is worth changing it? From System Profile I have those other info:
Full charge capacity (mAh):          3386
       Current (mA):          846
       Voltage (mV):          12029
Condition:          Replace soon
What do you suggest to do then? How much does it cost a new battery? Actually, I think that also the processor performance deteriorate (it often becomes very hot, especially when watching Flash or Silverlight stuff), but, unfortunately I cannot change it.

Hi!
Thanks for all the answer. Please let me to resume this old and interesting discussion.
After having evaluated several solutions (including NAS, different ways of backup, etc) I bought an external firewire HDD, since I believe it nicely fits my necessities. Next, after these holidays, I will finally replace my old HDD with a SSD one. I think 120 GB are ok. I just need the apps and small-sized documents (rather LaTeX, Matlab, word, pages or excel documents, etc. - no movies or mp3 (I have Spotify, for that) ). Large files (e.g. movies, pictures, etc) may end up in external firewire HDD.
Now, let's consider the OS. I currently have 10.6.8 and I am very satisfied of that. I find it very stable, and all the apps I need are still well supported. On the other hand, given that there are like 5 years that I have the same installation, I may have a lot of obsolete files and setting that I can safely remove. This means that once I will have performed a backup of my documents, my email, my pictures etc. I can safely throw away all the rest. Hence, I may perform a brand-new installation of the OS. Although I am happy with 10.6.8, I was wondering if it is worth to upgrade it (I have a 2.53 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo - 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 RAM) to Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavricks. In that case, which would be the real benefits? And what about the cons?
Finally consider that I only have the Leopard installation disks from 2008 (not even Snow Leopard) and I will bring my laptop to a techician to change the HDD (I know, it is simple but I don't have all the screws etc. and I will not buy them only for this purpose). Once he will have replaced the HDD, will he re-install the OS also? Or I have to reinstall the OS through my original DVD (5 years old, I don't even know if they still work) and upgrade to Snow Leopard again by myself? I would exclude the carbon copy solution since I may want to throw away a lot of garbage and perform a brand new instalation of the OS. How to proceed? Thanks again!

13" MacBook Pro (mid 2009) hard drive and memory upgrade

So I'm looking to upgrade my hard drive and memory for my 13" MacBook Pro. I'm still wondering just how easy it will be to recover my data, and put it back onto my new drive. I currently have everything backed up to an External drive using Time Machine. If I back it up, and then do the replacement, is it really as simple as it sounds to start it up, put in the Mac OS disk and then restore from a Time Machine backup? I have 150 Gb worth of data and would be ticked off if I can't get it back to my MacBook Pro. Any expertise out there? The actual installation looks easy, but it's the loading the new drive that has me concerned. When I install the new drive, is there anything else I need to do to prep it? And how do I do it if there is? Looking at a 500 gb or even 1 Tb Western Digital drive.

I would say get yourself an external enclosure. Put the hard drive that comes out of your MacBook pro into the enclosure. Put in the new hard drive. Boot up from the external hard drive, use disk utility to format the new drive. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to move everything as it is from old hard drive to new internal one. Re-boot to internal drive, you are done.
Carbon Copy Cloner is a freeware get it from download.com

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