help with upgrading macbook hard drive!!!

[twoodcc]

well i finally opened my macbook. after turing it on and seeing that everything looked good, i opened it up to add RAM and hard drive.

i got the RAM in there (i think)

but i can't get the hard drive back in there!! i'm pushing as hard as i can !!

any ideas?

 

[twoodcc]

well i can shine a flashlight down there and see this black thing, but i don't see how it connects. do you think i messed up the connector?

 

[twoodcc]

well i'm getting really scared right now.

i pulled out some black rubber thing from where the hard drive goes. but now i have the hard drive in there (i think)

i put everything else back together, and turned it on......nothing

please help!!!1

 

[pjarvi]

Try putting the original memory back in, and see if it will boot. When I first bought some memory (from Fry's) one of the modules was bad, I put the old memory back in and everything worked peachy. Went out and bought some Kingston memory from a local store I trust (bit more $$), no problems after that.

If you removed something when changeing the hard drives, that's bad. From what I saw in a video of removing the hard drive, it should just slide right out, and the new one slide right in. Make sure the connectors are the same! The MB uses SATA.

 

[twoodcc]

thanks for the reply. and you were right, it was the ram. i somehow got the hard drive in there right, but the ram i bought wasn't working right. as soon as i put the other ram in there, boom it started right up. man this is making me mad

 

[twoodcc]

well after reseeding the RAM about 10 times, it finally booted up and sees all 2GB!!! let's hope it stays that way

 

[twoodcc]

i still just have the stock hard drive in it right now. can someone give me a link to what tool i need to take off the thing that attaches to the hard drive?