What's the largest hard drive the macbook mobo can support?

its from august 2007 if that makes any difference
and once i get a new HD is there anyway to clone my hard drive for free?

I just installed this drive. It will work on yours also.
Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT 320GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
I also bought a USB enclosure to put my old drive in. No sense wasting a drive. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone it from the external drive onto my newly installed internal drive. If you don't want to buy an enclosure you can use an external drive to do the same thing. I use my old drive from my MacBook for storage space now.
OWC Hard Drive Enclosures
These are good sources for drives.
OWC MacBook Ram and Hard drives
NewEgg.com LapTop Hard Drives

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