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Hard drive upgrade on new Mac Mini
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For the upgrade experts here. When replacing the hard drive on the new Mac Mini (with greater capacity, i.e., 500gb), the original OS from the old drive is gone. So after the new hard drive is installed, am I correct that at the first boot up you have to insert the OS X disc and do a complete install of OS X? Will it boot up off the OS X disc? (They include OS X discs with the Mac Mini, I'm assuming).
If so, has this ever been a complicating risk in replacing the hard drive?
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You are correct. Just remember that more than likely the new drive will be unformatted (or improperly formatted) and won't show up as a valid install destination. You have to look in the menu bar for "Utilities" and fire up disk utility to format the drive, and *then* you can reinstall, no problem.
Don't forget to also reinstall the bundled software after you get the OS installed. (Also done from the DVD's that ship with the machine.)
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All Macs come with a plutonium device built in that is designed to go off and take your house up in a giant mushroom cloud if it detects that the hard drive is not the one that originally came with the drive.
... just kidding. Of course all you have to do is boot from the OS X install disc, format the drive with Disk Utility, and install as normal.
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Thanks guys. Along the same lines, would this 500gb drive work in the new Mac Mini? Has anyone been successful with this drive? Seems like a good price for the money.
Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136314
And Charles, to deactivate that internal plutonium device, just squeeze both black posts on either side and gently lift it out :-).
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That drive will work fine.
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Yes, it will.
In fact, every 2.5" SATA drive will work in the Mac mini.
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Originally Posted by Simon 
Yes, it will.
In fact, every 2.5" SATA drive will work in the Mac mini.
...which includes the 2.5" SATA drives with a height of 12.5mm??
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