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If your hard drive is OEM, there should be a plastic tab that you gently pull on to lift the hard drive, being cautious of the SATA cable.This must be removed before the hard drive is pulled out. You will see a small black bar held down with two screws right next to the hard drive.To pull the cover, put your fingers at the hinge of the MacBook screen (from the bottom), and lift from the metal part under the rubber cover. If you accidentally do this, tip to follow. Remove the hard drive from the device by removing the 8 screws from the bottom of the MacBook and pulling off the bottom cover, being careful not to pull at the edges as it will pull off the rubber coating.Here's a great visual guide to the steps below: Step 2: Removing the Hard Drive from the Mac If you didn't receive a nasty message on step 5 saying the Disk was corrupt, to back up your files and such, good on ya! Try some Canadian troubleshooting - When in doot (doubt) Reboot! If this completes successfully, click Repair Disk Permissions NOTE This may solve your problem. Click the Verify Disk Permissions button.Do this until there are no errors or (like me) you receive a message saying that the disc couldn't be repaired. Click the Repair Disk button that will only appear after you click Verify. Click the Verify Disk button in the Disk Utilities.Select your drive on the left navigation panel (It's probably already selected).
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This is probably overkill on instructions, but there are PC people out there who may try to help out the (much more) rare critical Mac issue. Hopefully I diagnosed a bad hard drive correctly (I'll provide my method) and I hope this helps someone out there.
#Apple 2011 mac mini hard drive replacement and ios how to#
Being a 1 Mac household and an IT professional who has only supported PCs, I had a challenging time trying to figure out how to reload OSX after my husband's Mac hard drive died.