🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello All:

Thanks for all of you who wrote and gave suggestions and links.
Internet is a great resource, but you folks are the ones who should
really be appreciated.

The installation of the new hard drive was relatively easy.  We had to
buy a No. 8 torx screwdriver and a No. 0 Phillips driver.

When inserting the new hard drive back into the housing, the two
rubber strips on the sides got dislodged.  No matter what we did they
would roll out towards the bottom and prevent the hard drive from
engaging with the connectors of the computer.

With screwdrivers we tried to hold in place the rubber strips, they
got in the way of the hard drive, preventing us from inserting it in
place.  Tried putting the rubber strips on the sides of the hard
drive, this did not work.  Put the rubber strips back in the housing
carefully, and then slightly lubricated the tips of the protruding
screws on the hard drive, this did not work either.

We finally took the rubber strips off, cut too small strips from a
rubber band and wedged them on the two sides of the hard drive, just
around the edges as a temporary stopgap measure.

Any suggestions as to how to hold the original rubber strips in place?

What would happen if my friend were to operate this computer without
the original rubber strips but just with the strips of rubber bands at
the very edges?

Deguza

(Using voice recognition program, there may be grammar and vocabulary
errors in my posting.)

On Oct 12, 12:17 am, Kompu Kid <deg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Folks:
>
> I will be helping a friend install a new hard drive in her Macbook.
> From what I understand her hard drive of 60 GB is completely shot.
>
> - she says she has the operating system CD
> - she has purchased this computer in 2006
> - it is a 1.83 MHz Macbook that has Intel Core Duo the
>
> What would be the procedure for replacing the hard drive in this
> computer?  I have quite at the experience with PCs, but have not done
> much with Macs recently.
>
> Also, she says she wants an "Apple" hard drive.  I told her that Apple
> probably uses third party hard drives these days.  Is this the case?
> Does it matter which brand she uses?  (I understand that there are
> some physical limitations as to which hard drive would fit: thickness
> has to be less than 9.5 millimeters or less.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Deguza
>
> (I am using voice recognition software, there may be grammar/
> vocabulary mistakes in my posting.)