My optical drive likes the last DVD I burned so much that it won't give it up. It took awhile to figure out that the drive had died. So today I'm a techie.
First thing was to order a new optical drive as well as a bare hard drive docking station.
The hard drive in this iMac was fine but it was only 750 GB and I have a couple of new empty 2TB sea gates laying around, so, while I've got the thing apart I might as well put the new bigger drive in.
I downloaded a copy of
Carbon Copy cloner and cloned the internal hard drive to the new seagate drive. Then I cleaned my desk.
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| Ready to disassemble |
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| Use suction cups to pull the front glass off |
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| Off it comes |
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| Good opportunity to clean the grime under the glass |
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| Removing the screen exposes the guts |
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| old optical drive out |
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| Both new drives ready to go in |
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| Almost back together |
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| Success!! Back up and running |
OK, now back to work and off to the OVAC's 12x12 fundraiser tonight.