1. A replacement hard drive (Doh!)
2. A T6 screwdriver
3. A small phillips screwdriver
4. SuperDuper!

To start with I did a clone of my internal drive to an external firewire drive. This took over 4 hours using SuperDuper!. I was getting a copy rate of 10MB/s. That done. I took the battery out of the MacBook Pro, and followed some very helpful Powerbook Medic movies.

1. Cloned hard drive with SuperDuper!
2. Battery Removal
3. Open up the MacBook Pro
4. Hard drive removal

Putting it all back together is just the reversal of the procedure above. Once the replacement hard drive is installed and the case is back on. Connect up your external Firewire drive. Boot off this, then run SuperDuper! again to clone the external drive data onto your shiny new internal drive. I ran Disk Utility to repair the permissions afterward, and my new drive and data on it seems fine. The new Seagate drive is a lot speedier than my old one. It took just over 2 hours to clone, at a speed of 16MB/s. Seems like a huge improvement, but could be that my old drive was really fragmented, due to lack of space.

Now I have loads of space! I also have a spare drive which I will find an external Firewire case for, and use it as some kind of backup device.

Caution and disclaimer

If your MacBook Pro is still under warranty, you might want to get an Apple approved repair shop to do the work, otherwise your warranty will be void. Also, these machines are very delicate. Make sure you don’t zap the electronics with static. Avoid touching the logic board in particular. Proceed at your own risk!