Anyone tried to DIY upgrade the HDD for the Alum iMAC early 2008 model ?

I manage to 'kill' it via Disk Utility yesterday morning when I found "Invalid Node Structure". It was verifying the HDD when it hit much errors and the HDD refuses to mount. The partition seems to have disappeared. I then loaded DiskWarrior, it could not repair the issues. It reports that it was a hardware failure that causes it unable to replace the new recovered data or something. I still manage to remove much of my data uncorrupted via preview

So I'm thinking what the heck, lets give it an upgrade while we are at it. Then I saw the online tutorials. Its like doing surgery, anyone tried it before?

Cheers~

This post has been edited by gerald7: May 24 2010, 11:24 AM

yes your right. I was doing much research on it past few days. A lot of care has to be done, but not entirely impossible. Still I do not have the "sucker" so cant remove the front glass.

Agreed.

=) I dont think we have those in Kuching. Or maybe have, I have no idea. Switch can upgrade for me ?




Initially I got the Invalid node structure, and Invalid sibling link error. Found via Disk Utility (boot from DVD). Then I could not select / mount / access the HDD. After much dismay I loaded DiscWarrior which found heaps of errors and tried to repair, and gave me result saying could not save due to hardware error. I was like, is this for real ? Maybe it was failing and I manage to provoke it.

So I moved out some data which I still have not back up to my external drives via Preview. Then Rebooted again to OSX DVD. Back to Disk Utility and found that I can click the HDD again (no more grey out) ! So quickly I formatted it, and remounted it.

Did another reboot, just in case and loaded the 10.6 DVD =) (I was still on 10.5 before the Invalid's came along) By the time I was done installing it was 3.40 am this morning. So far.. So good. Did few more disc utility test. and it says the drive is healthy and functioning properly.

Anyways I'll be monitoring the HDD for now, hopefully its not an hardware error, else I really need to do surgery on it. Lucky I have my MBP to entertain me when my Imac was out!

So I'm also wanting to upgrade my aging iMac 20" (early 2008) But could not locate any seller whos selling one piece 4GB DDR2 800 Ram... Any got anu clues where to find this gem ?

I was thinking 1x 2gb + 1x 4gb = 6GB...

if cannot find in m'sia then 2x2GB lo...