in this video I'm going to go over the process of swapping a hard drive out on
a MacBook Pro this is a 2012 a mid 2012 MacBook Pro this probably applies to
some other models in a previous video I cloned the drive inside to an external
USB Drive using time machine and the recovery console and I'll link to that
in the description so I've got here a Samsung one terabyte SSD and I'll put
links in the description for the equipment I'm using here this is a Sabrent
USB Drive enclosure and those will be Amazon affiliate links and if you use
those that helps out my channel a little bit so first off I'm going to remove all
the perimeter screws I have a 4-0 screw driver here I like to work on a clean
flat surface and then take the screws out and just place them adjacent to
where I take them out of that computer so I don't lose them some people will I
use tape or something to hold them so they don't lose them and I like to use
quite a bit of downward pressure while I'm taking these screws out now when you
put these back in they do have a little bit of Loctite on them and you could
replace the Loctite I tend to not do that you know if you were doing this for
a client or something you may want to do that so the screws don't come loose I
just feel around and if I feel a screw come loose I'll just tighten it back
down I have all the screws out now so I can just lift the back off comes off
pretty easy
and now we've accessed the inside of the computer okay so now we can see the hard
drive inside of this it looks very similar because I'm replacing it 500
gigabyte drive with a terabyte drive so to get it out we'll loosen these screws
with the hard drive bracket and actually we only have to loosen the brackets on
the one side there's the two screws and then we can unplug this you want to be
very careful here pull this out evenly
and now we have the hard drive out we'll need to get a screwdriver and change
these screws and move them into the new hard drive okay so these screws here are
a t6 Torx here I'll put a link in the description to one of these I'll just
take them out of the old drive and put them into the new drive
okay so I've inserted all these screws off-camera here and then we'll just plug
the drive in well tilt it back into the bracket here make sure it's seated
properly we'll put this bracket back on and tighten it down and now we have the
hard drive installed we can replace the back cover and one thing I like to do
you have to make sure you don't knock any of your screws off around here but I
like to carefully turn this over and open it up and make sure it boots and if
it doesn't you can put the old hard drive back in so I have the Apple symbol
and it boots so I can actually shut it down seeing the startup screen is good
enough for me okay it's shut back down I'll carefully lift this up because the
bottom plate is still loose and I'll just replace all the screws I like to
put them all in start them and then after they're all started I'll go around
and make sure they're all tight okay and that's the finished product here we have
a hard drive swapped out on this Mac like I said I'll put the link in the
description to the video where I talk about cloning the drive using time
machine and if you have any questions please leave them in the comments and if
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