Replacing a hard drive in an Intel iMac
Stay tuned – in the next couple of days I will be posting a complete guide to replacing the hard drive of an Intel iMac 250GB with a brand new 500GB. I plan on having proper screenshots, etc. I will also be loading the new Snow Leopard on it with a clean install. Rather than copying an image of the busted drive back on, we’re going with a clean install of Snow Leopard and just moving individual folders. The reason for this is that this setup has been copied and re-copied as computers and operating systems get upgraded and replaced over the last 6 years or so, starting with Mac OS 9, and there is way too much unnecessary “stuff” on there.
Sometimes a clean install of an operating system, whether Windows or Mac OSX, can be like having a new computer again.