major MacBook upgrade

[iphonewarrior]

hello people, hopefully your vast knowledge of MacBook may help me:

Right where to start,

I have a MacBook 2ghz intel core duo, 2gb of ram(upgraded myself a few weeks ago) 75gb hard drive, its basically the early 2007 model, I feel a bit seen off really because I payed more then for it than what the top of the ra he one costs now. Im' currently running on the latest version of tiger! And wanting to upgrade to leopard!

This is where I need your help, basically I want to know whether I can pull my hard drive out an stick a nice big fat one in then load leopard up on it an then run that boot camp thing and have windows xp running to???

I know windows is horrible but I need it for my job!

Will this work?

Thank for your time

Johnboy

[Eragon]

Originally Posted by iphonewarrior

hello people, hopefully your vast knowledge of MacBook may help me:

Right where to start,

I have a MacBook 2ghz intel core duo, 2gb of ram(upgraded myself a few weeks ago) 75gb hard drive, its basically the early 2007 model, I feel a bit seen off really because I payed more then for it than what the top of the ra he one costs now. Im' currently running on the latest version of tiger! And wanting to upgrade to leopard!

This is where I need your help, basically I want to know whether I can pull my hard drive out an stick a nice big fat one in then load leopard up on it an then run that boot camp thing and have windows xp running to???

I know windows is horrible but I need it for my job!

Will this work?

Thank for your time

Johnboy

Welcome to EIC!

The following link can guide you on how to replace your hard drive. You can indeed get a larger model. Just make sure the drive is compatible with the Macbook specs.

With adequate hard drive space, you will indeed be able to run bootcamp and Leopard.

Have you considered getting a USB or firewire external hard drive? They come in a variety of flavors and keep you from having to do what you are thinking. You can't use an external drive as your Windows partition but you can certainly clear out the contents of your internal drive.

http://www.macrumors.com/2006/05/18/...nd-benchmarks/

[iphonewarrior]

so basically what your saying is it can be done. thats fantastic.

i have other concerns to with the external hard drive, will it affect my itunes and pictures and all that, the only reason this bothers me is because like yourself i have an iphone, will it mess everything up? thanks for the link

johnboy

[Eragon]

Not at all. I have a couple of hundred GB of movies and and music. The majority of the material I am not currently using, I keep on the external drive. When I want to sync it to my iPhone, I let iTunes make a copy of the file to my main hard drive. When I am done with it, I remove it from both iTunes and the main drive. My original copy of the file is still safe and sound on the external drive.

The situation you have is surprisingly similar to the ones faced by MacBook Air owners. A bigger hard drive would be nice, but if you can make do with a smaller drive, why not?

Are you still under Apple Care?

[iphonewarrior]

i dont think so no. i should have taken it out to sort stuff like this out. another thing that i've stupidly done is i deleted something from my laptop called "etc" i thought this was just a short cut thing, but later to my own stupidity realised that "etc or var" boot your laptop up! so now i am laptopless! i think i'm going to have to take it into one of my local apple stores! because i do not have a clue what to do with it.


you said you deleted the songs out of itunes when you've finished with them, so when you delete them when you sync your phone doesnt it delete it from your iphone to? or do you that checked box thing so it only syncs them?

[Eragon]

After my iPhone is synced to the computer, I uncheck the music/videos I want to remove and apply the changes. Once off the iPhone, I go into the library section of iTunes and delete the file from the iTunes library. Note, the original copy of the file I'm deleting remains untouched in my external drive.

[iphonewarrior]

right i understand you now, that makes perfect sense.

do you know anyway i can undo what i've done so far to my laptop

[Eragon]

Try this link from Apple. It contains some recovery instructions:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106908

[iphonewarrior]

fountain of knowledge! cheers fella

will reply again if i need more help

[iphonewarrior]

i've used exactly what you have me, booted it up in single user mode and its just not giving me anything, what do you think the best action is? apart from launching it out my window and letting a car run over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!