Clear a large, flat surface, either on a table top or the ground, and consider using a large towel or something soft and large on which to place parts as you go.Here's the simple man's guide for replacing the hard drive inside an Intel iMac (the ones with the glass-covered screens) – refer to the video above for illustration: This whole operation is rather tricky, and could result in your iMac being inoperable. Suction cups (some good, strong ones - 1.5-2" diameter preferred - I used these)ĬAVEAT: I take no responsibility for your computer getting messed up as a result of your own repair work.Jeweler's-size flat-head screwdriver (for help in prying cables loose).
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Multiple Torx size screwdrivers (I think T6 & T8, mostly - just get a multi-tool torx driver like this one).#1 Phillips screwdriver ( here's a nice one).I don't need a ton of storage space on the internal drive, as I have multiple externals for different uses. I'll simply inform you of my decision to use a 1 TB WD Caviar Black drive (7200 rpm, 32 MB cache). I won't go into any gory details of hard drive types, speeds, recommendations, etc. I used the instructions found on the Amfiteatar website to compile my more condensed instructions here. Rather than spend a few hundred dollars to get the drive replaced, or using an external FireWire drive to boot the iMac, I decided to replace the drive with a larger/faster model myself. My iMac's hard drive was recently borked (I was getting node errors and i/o errors when I ran fsck in single-user mode, and I couldn't format and reinstall OS X), so I had to replace it.