Upgrading Hard Drive

My future bro in law just offered me his "old" hard drive. he has a newer version Macbook Pro which he upgraded the Hard Drive for and he seems to think this hard drive will work in my 1st generation Macbook Pro. Needless to say I'm skeptical. If it were my own brother...well that's another story...
It's a fujitsu 320 GB hard drive. Is this thing compatible with my 1st generation Macbook Pro?
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It's compatible but ...
a) It's been used and so you cant be sure how well or how long it will work
b) It's only 320GB so how much more storage does that actually give you
c) You can buy a brand new 500GB 7200rpm drive for only $75 (with 5 year warranty) from here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST9500420AS/

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Thanks!
I wondered if that was all I needed, but when I built my new system and installed PS CS4 I kept getting errors. So, I went back to the old system and deactivated it and still got errors. Uninstalled it deactivated and still got errors on the new system. When I talked to Adobe they just kept telling me the key was invalid (even though I had been running that same program and key for the last 4 years without problems lol) and it was not a burnt copy or pirated. I had the orginal box with the original DVD case and serial number on the case... A friend of mine had upgraded their rig and went to a Suite so he gave me his CS4. But, needless to say (as it is said all over these forums apparently) Adobe was of no help at all so I had to buy a new version. I'm not looking to go through all of that BS again, haha.
So as long as I deactivate the Suite (or do I need to deactivate each program separately?) I should be able to reformat (or upgrade hard drives) and reinstall CS6 as many times as I want? (I usually do a reformat like once a year to keep my computers clean and free of junk that may have been downloaded by other household members...)

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I have a 2008 Mac Book Pro partitioned running windows and are running out of drive space. Can I upgrade hard drive for more capacity? I purchased a faster drive initially, but has 200 GB capacity. I am running out of room and would like to upgrade for more space if possible.
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You don't need to partition your drive to run Fusion, only if you want to run Bootcamp.
If you have space on your Windows partition, I would suggest you backup your Windows partition, and then, delete the partition using Disk Utility.
You can now restore your virtual machine to a single volume or repartition if you prefer.
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i have a 2010 mbp 13" 2.4
I upgraded the hhd from the 250 to a 320 5400 RPM drive i cleared the cache did a clean install of osx 10.6 grabbed all the updates and then rolled my time machine to restore all my files.
But now it randomly freezes for about 4-7 seconds. It's extremely annoying and i can't figure out why. Short of a clean install any ideas on what might fix this?
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The AHT does test the graphics chips. Run the extended version and see if anything shows up in the form of an error code. Also, there may be a crash log in Console. Try to run something processor intensive so the Mac freezes, and then run the AHT. Heat could be a factor.
Do you have access to an Apple Store? If so, make an appointment at the Genius Bar and bring in your Mac for evaluation. They would probably have a more comprehensive hardware test they could run. If you get any error codes, bring those along.
It sounds like you could have some sort of hardware problem here. Since you are under warranty, it might be time to let Apple diagnose and fix it. It sounds like you may have had video issues during the first week of ownership with the original hard drive, and these may actually be independent of the hard drive.
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In theory the newer sata-150 should be backward compatible with the older sata.
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I want to upgrade my hard drive (WDC WD6400BEVT-60A0RT0) to SSD for faster performance AND upgrade to Windows 8. How should I proceed? Which should come first?
I am not very knowledgeable about these things, but I have changed hard drives before -- never an SSD though. Never had BIOS problems in these changes, so never bothered with it either. No experience about that. I am practically illiterate about that part.
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Eject the DVD tray with the manual eject hole using a bent out paper clip.
Load you W8 disc _ close the tray and plug in the adapter.
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(the W8 disc will format the drive automatically)
Get the newest SSD you can find, don't buy old junk from eBay _ always buy from a reputable dealer.
I have Samsung SSD in my dv8 and has no problems, my old dv7 has an Intel SSD and it's been good too _ no problems. Stay away from bargain deals with obscure brand names.
There are no official drivers posted for your machine for W8, so you can/will have to use the generic ones, but some times the HP OEM W7 drivers will work.
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After upgrading hard drive on MacBook Pro, Premiere will no longer open

I just upgraded the internal hard drive on my MacBook Pro (mid-2010, unibody), OS 10.8.2, with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 M Graphics card.
I've been running Premiere Pro CS5, and then CS6, on the machine without any problems until I upgraded the hard drive (to a new Seagate Momentus XT SSHD 750GB).
Now, when I load Premiere Pro, I get the following error message: "Adobe Premiere Pro could not find any capable video play modules. Please update your video display drivers and start again."
I've tried everything I can think of, including resetting preferences, and what they suggest here: http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/error---preludevideo-play-modules.html (I installed the latest CUDA driver, and my GPU driver is up to date; I am already set up as Admin on my computer).
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Here's the message I got when I ran GPUSniffer:
--- OpenGL Info ---
2012-12-15 16:03:27.492 GPUSniffer[1310:707] invalid drawable
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.0.61
GLSL Version: 1.20
Monitors: 1
Monitor 0 properties -
   Size: (0, 0, 1440, 900)
   Max texture size: 8192
   Supports non-power of two: 1
   Shaders 444: 1
   Shaders 422: 1
   Shaders 420: 1
--- GPU Computation Info ---
Found 2 devices supporting GPU computation.
CUDA Device 0 -
Caught structured exception!Full test failed, trying 444 shaders only
--- OpenGL Info ---
2012-12-15 16:03:27.522 GPUSniffer[1310:707] invalid drawable
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.0.61
GLSL Version: 1.20
Monitors: 1
Monitor 0 properties -
   Size: (0, 0, 1440, 900)
   Max texture size: 8192
   Supports non-power of two: 1
   Shaders 444: 1
   Shaders 422: 0
   Shaders 420: 0
--- GPU Computation Info ---
Found 2 devices supporting GPU computation.
CUDA Device 0 -
Caught structured exception!Minimal test failed, trying CPU only
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Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.0.61
GLSL Version: 1.20
Monitors: 1
Monitor 0 properties -
   Size: (0, 0, 1440, 900)
   Max texture size: 8192
   Supports non-power of two: 1
   Shaders 444: 0
   Shaders 422: 0
   Shaders 420: 0
--- GPU Computation Info ---
Found 2 devices supporting GPU computation.
CUDA Device 0 -
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I decided to try again - this time cloning my original drive onto the new one instead of using Time Machine - and now everything seems to work just fine. Just faster. I can only assume that in the restoration process the first time, some necessary files got corrupted or went missing. Thanks, Bill, it was your question that made me wonder whether it might be better to create an image.

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I've been keeping regular copies of my system using time machine, but am not sure of it's overall capabilities. I am about to replace my internal hard drive (2008 macbook) and upgrade to Snow Leopard. Once this is done can I simply restore my old settings, applications, and files using time machine? Would this also include things such as my .profile file?
Also if anyone has any advice on a good replacement hard drive then that would be super. I have the late 2008 aluminium macbook, and need something bigger than the current 230GB. I'm off to do some research now, but it can't hurt to ask here too.
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Nick

Yes, the Momentus is a good drive.....You shouldn't have any issues with that one...
I myself purchased a Seagate Momentus 5400RPM hard drive and used it for a few months until I got a nice deal on a 128GB Kingston V200 SSD.....
Now I'm enjoying a quick Macbook Uni with 8GB of RAM and SSD upgrade. Planning on giving it to my niece since I have a couple of late 2011 Macbook Pros.
Good luck

Z61t Doesn't boot after upgrading hard drive

I'm upgrading the hard drive on my girlfriend's Lenovo Z61t laptop and am running in to a strange problem.
The computer will not boot anymore! I cloned the old disk to the new one using acronis true image and when I insert the new disk into the laptop and boot it, after the system prompt there's a blinking dash at the top left corner of the screen.
http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=Z_Series_Thinkpads&message.id=469&query.id=23938...
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I fixed the issue. I researched many many forums and found no help on any of them, and sorry-no help on this one either.
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I also want to upgrade to 16MB RAM. Any problems anticipated with that?
Thanks!

Ooops. Yes. Sorry for that silly typo. It is 2 TBs. Here's the info on memory:
Maximum Memory
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Memory Slots
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Upgrading Hard drive & RAM

Hi,
I own a HP dv7-3085dx (product no : VM188UA#ABA) and I need to upgrade my hard drive to a SSD & upgrade my RAM. currenlty I'm having 500GB hdd & 6144MB DDR3 ram.
1. Please let me know whether Serial ATA III SSD (Samsung - 840 EVO 250GB Internal Serial ATA III Solid State Drive) is compatible with my mother board. And is it possible to use this SSD(primary) together with my old HDD(secondary).
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Your specific motherboard has the Intel 5 series chipset which only is capable of SATA-II. However, the SATA-III Samsung 840 Evo will work just fine and you will still see amazing speeds. You have picked a good SSD (the same one I am using so I am a bit prejudiced).
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Upgrade Hard Drive

Hello,
Imac5,1 Intel core 2 Duo, 2.1GHz 20inch display. I need to upgrade my hard drive (current 250 GB)
If I replaced it with Seagate 750 GB , or 500 GB
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Yesterday I went to Genius Bar and asked them if they can upgrade my hard drive ...
The Genius told me that Apple does like to do that. They like to keep the systems the same way
that the warranty is under. Since I am under warranty (also bought a
Apple protection plan), they suggested me to go to an approved apple service and have the drive
upgrade. Then if I do that I'll be happy with my bigger drive and it will void the warranty.
After that everything went blank and last thing that I remember was the security guard guiding me out the door!

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I need to upgrade my hard drive to something larger, but I can not find my original dvd's that came with my imac. Is there something I can do? I did just upgrade to snow leopard and have that dvd but I was not sure if I can do a clean install with a new hard drive.
Thanks
Message was edited by: smokeyjw

You can do a new install on a blank hard drive with the Snow Leopard disk. Or you can temporarily mount the new hard drive in an external case or use an adapter such as the NewerTech adapter, clone your current drive to the new unit using Carbon Copy Cloner, Super Duper or a similar utility, then mount the new drive in your iMac. Note that Mac cloning utilities may not work on a Windows partition; you'll probably have to clone that separately.
Regards.

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I very much would like to upgrade the hard drive in my MacBook Pro 17" from the supplied 200GB 7,200rpm to the newer larger capacity of the 320GB 7,200rpm being recently made available.
I purchased my MacBook Pro 17" as a custom spec in the second half of 2008. At the time it had to be ordered as a custom spec in order to have it supplied with the maximum 4GB RAM, only weeks before it became a standard spec on the current MacBook Pro 17" along with the new option of having the larger 320GB 7,200rpm fitted.
I need at least 250GB to 300GB available hard drive space on my portable MacBook Pro, without the need to have to plug in any from of external unit (MacBook Pro only). I have installed some very large applications such as Apple Logic Studio, Apple Shake 4.1, Apple Final Cut Studio and some other's to name but a few, which have left little to no realistic working space, nor any realistic space for many additional user files which I later would like to store and be readily available on the MacBook Pro and not some inconvenient external drive which I would only use for time machine and archiving. The extra 120GB available on the newer 320GB 7,200rpm that was introduced and made available weeks after I obtained my unit, would certainly give a much needed working/storage capacity and with the much needed rotational speed of 7,200rpm as currently with mine being necessary for music studio use and HD video editing.
Hard drive aside, I understand and am led to believe that the current MacBook Pro 17" currently and basically is the same unit as with my MacBook Pro 17" and Apple themselves pointed me in the direction of legitimate authorized Apple service and repair centers for arranging a hard drive upgrade. Using an authorized service/repair centre is necessary in order to keep the (extended 3 year) warranty intact. Trouble is on contacting the authorized service centre, they then allegedly checked this with Apple themselves before getting back to me and saying that it would not be possible due to the possibility of overheating from the newer drive, yet my MacBook Pro 17" runs quite cool with it's current 7,200rpm 200GB drive.
Is my MacBook Pro 17" doomed and I therefore can't upgrade to the larger 320GB drive at the same 7,200rpm spindle speed? Is my only choice to get-rid of the MacBook Pro I currently have? To be able to upgrade to the now fitted 320GB 7,200rpm drive in the current MacBook Pro's 17" would help me 'no end' and save me from having to ever consider selling all that I've invested with Apply recently, that would be a shame.

Thanks for both your suggestions.. I see that http://www.barefeats.com/ has some very useful info which I found on this page http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp08.html
Here they show both the WD Scorpio Black 7K 320G (320GB 7,200rpm) and the Hitachi 7K320 HDD (320GB 7,200rpm) drives to be both quite suitable, with the latter being the one installed on current MacBook Pro 17' notebooks as an option.. however I am now becoming excited at the option of possibly being able to upgrade to the new Seagate Momentus 7200.4 which will feature 500GB of storage, 7200rpm and 9.5mm thickness, this really would help me very much for my intended use and all self contained within my MacBook Pro 17".
However I am really left feeling a bit still unsure and weary as to the full and total compatibility for upgrading to one of these with my current MacBook Pro because of what the authorized Apple service/repair centre had told me. They seemed quit adamant at the time having took my MacBook Pro's serial number and then checking that with Apple technical as to it's compatibility to upgrade from it's current factory fitted 200GB 7,200rpm drive to the 320GB 7,200rpm HDD now on offer as an option to the current MacBook Pro 17" models.
Therefore just to re-confirm, I have a MacBook Pro 17" Intel Duo 2.6GHz 4GB RAM 1920x1200 display 200GB 7,200rpm drive, which I purchased around August/September 2008 only weeks before the 320GB 7,200rpm drive became an option on newly ordered MacBook Pro's (I missed this option by weeks). For absolute verification, my MacBook Pro 17" system information is as follows:-
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
SMC Version: 1.28f1
As you can see my Model Identifier is: MacBookPro4,1
With these details, could it be verified that this/my MacBook Pro 17" would be fully compatible with any of these three aforementioned drives? i.e. the following three models (especially the 500GB seagate):-
The WD Scorpio Black 7K 320G (320GB 7,200rpm)
and/or
The Hitachi 7K320 HDD (320GB 7,200rpm)
and/or especially
The new Seagate Momentus 7200.4 with 500GB of storage, 7200rpm and 9.5mm thickness
or maybe any other very Large capacity and fast operational drive that may improve over the three drives mentioned above.
All help and confirmation is very appreciated, thanx..

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