I used to know all the tricks to upgrading Macintosh hard drives, but since OS X, I haven’t had to worry about doing a hard drive exchange. in fact, my last three system upgrades have been resolved with new machines, not with new processor cards or new hard drives or more RAM.
This week, however, I ran into a system that was just flat out of disk space, and because the system had no room to add another internal drive, a hard drive swap was the only solution.
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