#2009 mac mini hard drive replacement upgrade#

Once everything is backed up to the iPod, you are good to go as far as proceeding with the upgrade. Start Backup, and select everything you want to save. The iPod will now act as an external hard drive. Once the iPod reboots, hold down the Select and Play/Pause buttons to enable Target Disk Mode. The easiest way to do this is to reset the iPod, holding the Select and Menu buttons. The first thing I did was back up everything to the iPod photo.

Small Phillips screwdriver (magnetized preferred).

While it is daunting, it really is a great learning experience. The thing is, if you bring it to a service center, they will pry it open themselves and charge you for doing so. Okay, let me preface this by saying I know how hard it can be to bring yourself to pry open your quaint little Mac.

#2009 mac mini hard drive replacement upgrade#

If you want to upgrade your Mac miniвЂ™s hard drive, read on for our tutorial which takes a look at backing up your data, replacing your hard drive, and restoring your data. Rather than taking it in to a service center where they would overcharge me, I did it on my own. It was time to upgrade to a 5400 RPM 100 GB drive. The mini had half a gig of RAM in it, but the 4200-RPM drive was just holding me back.

The 80 GB version struck my fancy, but soon I realized that I am not one that enjoys playing mouse cursor beach ball all that much. So much so that I had to pick up a Mac mini so that I would have a desktop Mac solution (and because it just calls your name when shopping at the Apple Store). Recently I picked up a PowerBook, and while I expected it to be вЂњokayвЂќ, I did not expect to fall in love with OS X the way that I have.