Replacement macbook pro 13" SATA cable

I recently had my macbook pro 13" mid 2009 unibody crash on me randomly and fail to boot i had a Momentus XT installed and it worked fine for around 2 years with not one single problem. I was curious as i had not had prior warning via SMART that there was any errors. I panicked and bought a new Momentus 500GB 7200 drive and cloned the old drive and attempted to boot and this failed also. I removed the hard drive and attempted to troubleshoot by connecting the HDD via a caddy and USB. To my suprise, it booted fine. In actual fact, both HDD booted fine, the old and new.
I therefore think its the SATA cable, where would i get a new one? bearing in mind i live in the UK. I have searched the net and they are hard to find.
Thanks
Neil

hi neilyboy,
how did you fix the problem? I have exactly the same problem. I too have a mid 2009 unibody MBP but 15"
Thanks!
Marten

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Apple have arranged to give me a replacement Macbook Pro due to faults with hardware on the one I am currently using. I will be going to pick up the replacement Macbook Pro tomorrow morning.
As a complete novice I just wanted to check that I have backed up the data from my current laptop onto my Iomega external hard drive properly, as I am slightly nervous about losing all my work and not being able to transfer all my files onto my new Macbook Pro tomorrow.
I did a back up using time machine earlier today which took quite a long time and seemed to go successfully. Is this the right thing to have done to save all data from my current laptop onto the external hard drive?
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If your problem on the Mac didn't affect the software or the TimeMachine backup, then restoring from that using SetupAssistant (when you first set up a new Mac it will ask you to restore) should go fine.
HOWEVER, if there are software issues on the Mac that also transferred to the TimeMachine drive, that will only transfer them back onto your new computer.
You can't very easily just pick out the things you want to restore from TimeMachine with, it doesn't give that fine detail of control, and if it's really messed up, it might not restore anything at all.
The golden rule of backups is to maintain two separate and easily accessible hardware copies of your data off the machine at all times.
Since you don't know for sure if the TimeMachine restore is going to work as intended, and your only other source is going to disappear, I'd advise a additional backup of your Music, Documents, Pictures and Movie folders etc., to another regular external drive via regular drag and drop copy methods.
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