MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Mac minis use a 2.5-inch SATA drive, while PowerBooks and iBooks use a 2.5-inch ATA/IDE drive-SATA and ATA interfaces are not interchangeable. Western Digital Scorpio Black 250GB Drive Compatibility Get a hard drive that matches the physical dimensions and connection interface of your Mac. SuperDuper ( ), which easily and thoroughly duplicates your hard drive’s contents.
To ensure that nothing slips through the cracks (like your e-mail archive, bookmarks, fonts, and other important files), you might want to consider using drive-cloning software such as Bombich Software’s You can use an external desktop hard drive, use a second Mac in FireWire target disk mode, or burn DVDs. Regardless of which Mac you have, if you decide to replace your current internal hard drive, you’ll need to copy all your current hard drive’s files onto another storage device before you do the switcheroo. (The Apple Store won’t do upgrade installations, but it will replace damaged parts with equal replacements.) TechRestore, which provides several PowerBook and iBook hard-drive upgrade services ranging in price from $189 to $299. There are service providers that can do upgrades for you, such as But for the iMac, the Mac mini, or older Mac laptops, replacing the internal hard drive with a drive that has more capacity can be a difficult.
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