winterlight
Active member
Hi guys,
So I went headlong into this. I did watch a couple of Youtube videos on replacing an HDD on this iBook but apparently the lessons didn't sink in...
My main problem is that something fell out and I don't know where it came from. (Pictures below of the part)
It looks like a spring with a header on top. It came out while I had the bottom cover off and the laptop was resting on the bottom part. (I attached a picture of the bottom of the laptop for reference) I found it after lifting the laptop. The part was just sitting on the work table...
I'm assuming that it comes from the bottom somewhere but I'm not sure.
I guess I could just reassemble the laptop and see if everything works but taking it apart AGAIN would be a major pain...
Some other fun stuff that happened:
- The delicate frame where the battery goes, I broke it off... I super-glued it, not sure if it will hold...
- I figured out AFTER removing the HDD that cloning the drive was better done using DISK UTILITY while the laptop was fully assembled. Doh! I realized this after the HDD was sitting in my hand and after I watched a couple of Youtube videos. I wound up using DD on my Ubuntu machine (and that was a major pain to get the right connectors so that the Ubuntu machine would talk to it) So now I face the possibility that after I get the HDD back in and fully assemble the machine that the SATA 3 SSD will just not work.
- The SSD was too big for the bay because I had to use a PATA to SATA adapter (too long). So I had to crack open the SSD housing and just use the SSD guts. It's surprisingly small but I will need to insulate it from the circuit board below the HDD. I think I'll use some foamy tape as suggested elsewhere on this forum.
My big takeaway from this is that the very next generation mac laptops are much easier to upgrade... So I may just buy one of those on eBay and do the whole memory, HDD upgrade on that.
I'm into this whole thing for about $80 so far including the machine (I had the SSD laying around) so I might be able to chalk it up to a learning experience.
Anyway, if anyone knows what that little spring is from and how to get it back into the machine I would appreciate it :b&w:
So I went headlong into this. I did watch a couple of Youtube videos on replacing an HDD on this iBook but apparently the lessons didn't sink in...
My main problem is that something fell out and I don't know where it came from. (Pictures below of the part)
It looks like a spring with a header on top. It came out while I had the bottom cover off and the laptop was resting on the bottom part. (I attached a picture of the bottom of the laptop for reference) I found it after lifting the laptop. The part was just sitting on the work table...
I'm assuming that it comes from the bottom somewhere but I'm not sure.
I guess I could just reassemble the laptop and see if everything works but taking it apart AGAIN would be a major pain...
Some other fun stuff that happened:
- The delicate frame where the battery goes, I broke it off... I super-glued it, not sure if it will hold...
- I figured out AFTER removing the HDD that cloning the drive was better done using DISK UTILITY while the laptop was fully assembled. Doh! I realized this after the HDD was sitting in my hand and after I watched a couple of Youtube videos. I wound up using DD on my Ubuntu machine (and that was a major pain to get the right connectors so that the Ubuntu machine would talk to it) So now I face the possibility that after I get the HDD back in and fully assemble the machine that the SATA 3 SSD will just not work.
- The SSD was too big for the bay because I had to use a PATA to SATA adapter (too long). So I had to crack open the SSD housing and just use the SSD guts. It's surprisingly small but I will need to insulate it from the circuit board below the HDD. I think I'll use some foamy tape as suggested elsewhere on this forum.
My big takeaway from this is that the very next generation mac laptops are much easier to upgrade... So I may just buy one of those on eBay and do the whole memory, HDD upgrade on that.
I'm into this whole thing for about $80 so far including the machine (I had the SSD laying around) so I might be able to chalk it up to a learning experience.
Anyway, if anyone knows what that little spring is from and how to get it back into the machine I would appreciate it :b&w:
