Awesome guide, wasn't anywhere near as daunting as I thought when I first started looking into swapping out the HDD. I got the exact same Mac cheap. You must've given yours a good cleaning before shooting because mine was layered in dust when I cracked it open lol to be expected after 8 years. It was so easy I even got a bit adventurous and pulled out the card where the difficult monitor plug goes into to give it a dusting. One tip to replugging into that difficult cable (if you do take it out), get down low and have the imac on the edge of the bench, got it in within 20 seconds with my fat fingers even.

Excellent, thanks for the tutorial, very instructive.

Entertaining and useful as usual.

Love your videos...the last 15-20 seconds are all ways my favorite part.

Awesome Job!

Great video - must be deja vu or something since I am watching it on an old HP G60-535DX laptop that I just did a similar job to - doubled the hard drive to a 1/2 TB with Windows 7 Pro which is 64-bit so that it would recognize all of the doubled "new" RAM - 4GB now - oooh. Actually canibalized an identical machine since both had 3GB of memory (a one and a 2 GB stick each), so I put the two 2GB sticks together. Thanks again, HNY, and looking forward to the continuation of the cycle videos.

Something I've noticed, when working with Mac, and cloning drives; if you clone the drive, there will be about 20 seconds of nothing but white screen, no apple, no spinning gear, nothing for 20 seconds. This is due to boot sector handling. I think we missed this, because of the video transition. I know cloning is a great way to save data, but I would suggest (if it's a generally clean/new OS) doing a clean install of the operating system. It will boot much faster than your cloned drive. If I'm wrong, and you are not experiencing the 20 second white screen, kindly ignore this pedantic message.

best upgrade you can do to an older mac is an SSD for OS & apps. you can get rid of the optical drive and install the regular spinning drive as home folder for storage.

I saw your vid after acquiring an iMac 24. Question.... the dime sized, 3volt battery, CR2032, do you recommend replacing that while the iMac is opened up? The iMac I have is a 2008 model, battery is now 10 years old. I have a new Energizer 3v CR2032. Should I replace it, or not push my luck? I know in window's pc's the only purpose is keeping the date and some bio's information. I'm just debating whether I should or should not mess with it? I'm installing a 'newer' (but used, 2011) 2 TB HDD and fresh OS install of OS X 10.9.5, Mavericks. Thanks

Thanks. Saw Upgrade Vid on OWC that was too intimidating. You helped demystify. Good show!

I just got an IMac and it has the folder when booting up. Heard I might have to swap the hard drive. Any other way to test it?

hello My Mac "Core 2 Duo" 3.06 24-Inch (Early 2009) (MB420LL/A), i want install Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD, what you think about? this mac support sata III ?

Good work! But why not install a SSD instead of an "old" HDD device? I did it in my iMac (earl 2008) and now it runs fast as I never seen before. Regards!

Very Good Very Profi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would moving to an ssd speed up the machine much?

Hi can i put graphic card of apple imac 20 inch to imac 24 inch?

HNY Dino! (Happy New Year) Love your videos,

Very cool video😎I’m getting my first IMac 2007 2.4ghz 250hdd 4gb ram next week,very excited and I heard that that year there was a heating problem? Have you heard about that?And is there a fix for it?Thanks,and you have a new subscriber here🙂Nice to meet you,I’m Gio😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

It is possible to put 8 GB of RAM imac early 2008

Happy new year!!

just wondered if you could have maybe split the 3tb drive into 2 partitions and then used it.luv the vids by the way

that´s fine!, would it be possible put in two modules? one 4 gigabytes and another of 2 gygabytes, in RAM memory socket. Thanks.

I remember when Macs were easy to work on. The boards used to just slide right out the back. Now they're designed to be trashed.

Must be a 32bit computer. Good video. Thanks

Dino's working with a mac now?! Has hell frozen over???

is it me, or is there should be no reason why you cant partition a 3TB drive ?? am i wrong?

Hi Dino, Presently i have Imac early 2008, 2.66 Ghz intel Duo core 4GB memory but Id like to increase the memory to 6GB. how possible is that.

When you cloned the drive to the 3tb, did you change the partition map scheme to GUID, I think by default the hdd would have an NTFS system on it with a windows based mbr. Doesn't make sense that it would boot from the usb and not internally.

I cant take out the hard drive. There are screws on the sides, and not enough space for the screw driver

Does it also clone the partitions on my old drive?

Ugh! Two 4 gigs of ram won’t work. Weird things happen. Was happy with 2 and 4

happy new year

I'm sure the boot noise on that Mac is the same as WALL-E's solar panel noise.

I just upgraded from 2gb to 4gb crucial ddr2. the Mac won't turn on. what do I do?

cooling system could use some cleaning. no ssd? why?

If you got a 3 tb drive at Best Buy for 70 bucks I’ll eat my iMac... 😂

That's not a 'pretty good price' for a 3TB drive, that's a holy guacamole give me 17 of them price... :D

Okay someone tell me he doesn't look like Sting!!

monke harrison ford

I just watched this to see how hardware upgrade is done with Mac. And now I am glad that I don't use a Mac.

You dont believe it, I got dat PC for 15 Euros in Germany :0

I got zapped by a capacitor

Hi man ,you are professional mechanic.....have a Email? or Facebook?

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,jky

Putting a 3tb harddisk as disk for the os in is a bad idea.... Its slow and when it fails because of constant use you lose everything... Get a 500gb ssd... Its enough space and use the 3tb drive as a backup drive for timemachine and other stuff... You could connect the 3tb drive over network... Should be faster than usb2.0... Never store your os and your important data on the same drive... Keep them seperate