2008-03-10 New harddrive for MacBook Pro, originally uploaded by Mike Fullerton.

My MacBook Pro’s hard drive suddenly died. I rebooted the machine and all I got was the gray screen of non bootyness. I tried all the tricks and finally it became clear that the drive was toast when the DiskWarrior tests failed. The drive was a Hitachi 7200rpm 200gig drive. The new one is a 200gig 7200rmp Seagate. I prefer Seagate. I’ve bought a lot of Seagate drives lately.

Replacing the drive in a MacBook Pro is an easy process - you just need a torx-6 driver and a very small phillips head screw driver. Take every screw you can find out. There are like 20 of them. Lift up the keyboard. Watch out for the flat cable connecting the keyboard to the motherboard. Replace the drive. Put everything back. I recommend you do the job on a table with a towel or something on it so your screws wont roll around.

Easy as pie.