The hard drive on my 2009 midyear 13" MBP died. I found this on Amazon and want to know if it is a good replacement choice: Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA 3 GB/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Internal Bulk/OEM 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive

If you are going to upgrade your harddisk, why not upgrade to SSD harddisk. You macbook pro supports SATA II SSD drives acccording to these Specs. SATA III is backward compatible with SATA II, so you can buy SATA III drive if you can't find SATA II drives.
Upgrading to SATA II SSD drive you give you super fast performence.
These are a few Segate SSD drives from amazon, that are not that expensive, I guess.
As for Western Digital vs Segate comparison, I second clintonfrombirmingham's suggestion. Western Digital never works for me.
*** After the harddisk upgrade
Install latest OS if possible
Update your EFI firmware
and clean NVRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

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anthonycancel wrote:
I want the folders I already backed up to come together into one folder when that year is over. Is there a way to manually do that or automatic through TM?
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Keep the old OS around and just kick the tires and test new OS. Apple has a history and habit of breaking support in things like this.
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Apple AirPort Time Capsule Support
Lion Communities
Cloning as a Backup Strategy
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Others who are asking the same question:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=mac+os+x+lion+WD+My+World+NAS

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For small amount of files, a regular USB stick or drive, it's already formatted with a MBR and FAT32 most likely which works both on PC's and Mac's.
External drives if you need more space.
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Vista and Win 7 can do this, Windows XP one can download a free exFAT upgrade from Microsoft.
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Rack your brain here on it.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16317478#16317478

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Hello,
Snow Leopard/10.6.x Requirements...
General requirements
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Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?...
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA
And it's been reported that if you have a MobileMe account Apple will send one free.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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Install this add on.
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I had download helper n my old computer, This computer broke. I have a new computer and wanted to know how I could get this on the new computer?

maybe you are talking about this?
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if yes simply go and click on '''Add To Firefox''' button >Restart your Firefox> and Enjoy :)

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