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I had my first harddrive fail on me last week... the "click of death" I had heard about makes so much more sense now!

So there I was... my MacBook was dead as a mouse but through some power googling and having had fixed and built many PC systems in the past I ventured forth and completed the repairs. Saving a bunch on parts and labour if I had have taken it to the mac repair shop...like any good sports car, a mac computer stings you for parts once they breakdown.

So here's how I did it and hopefully someone can learn from this... on a side note... this just isnt for replacing broken hard drive but also upgrading to large ones. If you find you are running out of space this will be the ticket to some more digital storage freedom.

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