upgrade macbook pro hard drive without voiding warranty

I’m not super concerned with power these days as my 3 1/2 year old battery doesn’t exactly hold a charge so I’m always plugged in anyway. Apparently the WD Scorpio Black uses the same amount of power as a normal 5400 RPM drive, but is faster.

I ordered a 500GB, 7200 RPM Western Digital Scorpio Black, (yes, that’s an Amazon Affiliate link), hard drive from Amazon to replace the factory-installed drive. I had dedicated 32 GB to my Boot Camp partition, which with a Vista installed was very cramped, perhaps even more cramped than my OS X partition that made up the balance of the drive.

This was an upgrade from the standard 120 GB drive, but three and a half years later it’s no longer big enough for me.

Until I made this change it had its factory-installed 160 GB, 5400 RPM hard drive. I use a Macbook Pro that dates from the summer of 2007. It was time for a new, upgraded, hard drive, and this is how I was able to copy both my OS X partition and Boot Camp, (Windows), partitions to the new drive, and expand both partitions to fill my drive, all without re-installing any software. In fact, every time I’ve wanted to copy a large file for the last while I’ve had to re-arrange and purge my hard drive, both in OS X and in my Boot Camp partition. For Christmas my brother gave me a copy of the game Portal, which required there to be about four gigabytes of available space on my hard drive.

Upgrade macbook pro hard drive without voiding warranty