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1. #Replacing macbook pro 2011 hard drive with used drive install#
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#Replacing macbook pro 2011 hard drive with used drive install#

Some newer Mac's have Lion Internet recovery built in where the firmware will install the Lion Recovery/OS back onto a completely blank/new hard drive.

#Replacing macbook pro 2011 hard drive with used drive full#

TimeMachine of 10.7.2 and later can be booted from it's Lion Recovery Parttion as well just to restore only, cloning is better process because it gives full access to everything like before on the internal drive. Hold the option key and you can boot from the external drive and format and clone everything to the new internal drive. Transfer this bracket to your new optical drive or hard drive enclosure. Remove the two black Phillips 0 screws securing the small metal mounting bracket. Be sure to pull by the edges of the connector, not by the cable itself. I have been asked if I could replace a hard drive in a Pro Air, I have never played with a Mac before.I have replaced a few laptop drives now. If you want to replace the drive, there is software called Carbon Copy Cloner than can clone both the Lion OS X Partition and the Lion Recovery Partition to a external drive intact (excpet what's in the Trash, no Filevualt, no bootcamp, use free Winclone for that) Pull the optical drive cable out of the optical drive. Lion is downloaded from apple's servers, you need AppleID and a fast reliable internet connection with no bandwidth caps limiting you.

It is the exception to see consistently reliable 6Gb/s operation in the optical bay of these systems. Both SATA 3.0 6Gb/s hard drives and SSDs encounter problems when attempted in the optical bay when the optical bay presents a 6Gb/s link capability. If desired, peel the pull tab off your old hard drive and transfer it to the side of your new drive. You'll need to transfer these screws to your new hard drive if you're changing drives. You can back up your MacBook Pro using Apple’s Time Machine, iCloud, or an external drive, preferably a hard. The opposite is the case with both 15 MacBook Pro Models. Remove two T6 Torx screws from each side of the hard drive (four screws total). FREE Shipping on orders over 25 shipped by Amazon. If you use your MacBook all day, then this. Well Lion has a Lion Recovery Partition on the drive you can access by holding command r and booting, there you can erase the Lion OS X partition completely (all files and programs) and reinstall Lion or simply reinstall Lion if there is a issue with it (no programs or files are touched in this second procedure) 1-16 of 801 results for '2011 macbook pro hard drive' 500GB New Sata 2.5' Hard Drive for Apple MacBook & MacBook pro.