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Upgrade your hard drive to gain more storage space!
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Loosen the two captive Phillips screws securing the access door to the iMac.
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Remove the access door from the iMac.
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Remove the following four screws:
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Three 6 mm T8 Torx.
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One 8 mm T8 Torx.
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Flip your iMac over and lay it stand-side down on a flat surface.
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To lift the front bezel off the iMac, simultaneously:
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Use your thumbs to press in the RAM arms and hold the iMac down.
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Use your index fingers to pull the small bridge of material on the front bezel toward yourself.
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Pull the Front bezel up with your index fingers.
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Once the small bridge of material has cleared the RAM arms, lift the front bezel by its lower edge just enough to clear the bottom edge of the rear case.
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Insert a plastic card up into the corner of the air vent slot near the top of the rear case.
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Push the card toward the top of the iMac to release the front bezel latch.
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Pull the front bezel away from the rear case.
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Repeat this process for the other side of the front bezel.
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If the bezel refuses to release, try pressing the lower edge back onto the rear case and repeat this opening process.
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Lay your iMac stand-side down on a table.
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Lift the front bezel from its lower edge and rotate it away from the rest of your iMac, minding the RAM arms that may get caught.
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Lay the front bezel above the rest of the iMac.
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If necessary, remove the piece of kapton tape(it is ok to toss this) wrapped around the microphone and camera cables.
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Disconnect both the camera and microphone cables.
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Peel up the lower EMI shield from the rear case.
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Remove the two 4.8 mm T6 Torx screws securing the display data cable to the logic board.
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Grab the display data cable connector by its black tab and pull it straight up off the logic board.
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Inverter cable on 24inch iMac pulls off to the left.
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Pull the inverter cable connector straight up off its socket on the logic board.
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Peel back the aluminum EMI tape from the two vertical edges of the display.
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Remove the four 8 mm with 2 mm thick head coarse-thread T10 Torx screws securing the display to the rear case.
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Lift the display from its lower edge and pull it toward yourself to peel off the EMI shield attached to its top edge.
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De-route the bundle of power supply cables from behind the hard drive bracket.
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Pull the hard drive thermal sensor connector away from its socket on the logic board.
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Press the hard drive bracket down to free it from the rear case, then rotate the top of the drive toward yourself.
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Lift the hard drive off its lower pins and pull it out of the rear case, minding the power supply cables that may get caught.
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Insert a spudger between the SATA connectors and twist it to separate the connector from the hard drive.
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Disconnect both SATA connectors.
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Remove the two T8 Torx screws securing the hard drive bracket to the hard drive.
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Remove the two T8 Torx hard drive pin on the other side of the drive.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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It was a fun way to spend a sunday! We didn't have a magnetic screwdriver so we used a glue stick and dipped our screwdriver in the "goop" and used it to secure the screws to the driver for the deep screw section. Fun stuff!
Thanks to this guide and a RAM upgrade my imac has at least a couple more years left on it. I did not disconnect the front bezel or LCD I just laid them aside (the LCD had to be propped up a little to prevent pulling). The scariest part was removing the HD heat sensor. I just went really slow and most of the glue was still attached to the sensor so that all I had to do was press it against the new HD and it affixed just fine. One week later and everything is working great! Magnetizing the Torx driver with the remote magnet is a great idea. I purchased a stand alone magnetizer/demagnetizer myself though.
Very handy guide. I just replaced the internal drive on my iMac and it's working well. Here also is a pretty good video of the procedure:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShY8zuT-w...
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjsIU1XEk...
Thanks to this very good description. Now these Mac has 10x more HD-Size than before! (1.5 TB). I wrote this from the IMAc so that you see: it works fine!
Thank you!
Dirk
Anyone else have really loud fans running all the time after upgrading hard drive?
I put in a 320 GB Seagate 7200, and I now have to turn Pandora up quite a bit to drown out the fan noise.
Suggestions? Workarounds?
