I'm always surprised at how quickly I
can fill up a hard drive
most people have more music than they'll
ever listen to and if you've got kids or
pets you probably have hours and hours
of footage of them being super adorable
it's a fact of life for most of us we're
always going to need a bigger hard drive
either that or you're unfortunate enough
to experience hard drive failure which
can be devastating the good news is that
upgrading or replacing your hard drive
is actually pretty quick and easy hi I'm
MJ with iFixit and today I'm going to
show you how to swap out that hard drive
in your MacBook as you'll see in a
minute it's not a difficult repair but
as always you'll want to follow the
step-by-step instructions and the repair
guide on our site today I'm going to
swap out this MacBooks original hard
drive with a much roomier and faster 500
gigabyte Seagate drive as far as tools
are concerned you won't need very much
for this repair I've got a Philips
double zero screwdriver a t8 Torx
security screwdriver both of which come
from our 26 piece bit driver kit a coin
and of course my replacement hard drive
this is one of our most popular hard
drives it's a 500 gigabyte 7200 rpm
Seagate drive now that I've got all of
my parts and tools laid out I can get
started the first thing I'm going to do
is use my coin to rotate the screw that
holds the battery in place and the
battery should just lift out and I'll
put that aside next I can see that there
are three screws down here and I'm going
to use my phillips double zero
screwdriver to loosen those up they're
not going to come all the way out now
that those are loosened you should be
able to kind of gently pull the memory
door you can set that aside and with
that out I can see that there's a little
white pull tab in here that pull tab is
attached to the hard drive so to remove
the hard drive I'm going to gently pull
the pull tab it slides right out like
magic not really
now the hard drive has this bracket
attached to it and the brackets held on
by these t8 Torx security screws so I'm
going to switch
a bit we're going to remove these screws
so we can transfer this bracket to our
new hard drive okay those screws removed
I can take off the bracket and we're
going to reattach this bracket to our
new hard drive but before we do that I
want to give you a heads up on an easily
avoidable mishap to give you an inside
view of what's going on the hard drive
is going to slide through these two
rails right here and connect to this
connector down at the bottom the
adhesive on the rails is pretty light so
save yourself the trouble of having to
reattach them by just making sure you
install the hard drive properly the
first time now that I've got the bracket
attached to my new hard drive all I've
got to do is slide it in format it and
I'll have 500 gigabytes of space for
videos of my cat awesome of course you
can find all the parts and tools for
this and many other repairs at
ifixit.com and if you run into problems
during your repairs there are lots of
solutions and the mac book repair guide
on our site thanks for watching and
happy repairing