![]() ![]() Nothing beats starting with a clean slate - after backing up everything (SuperDuper! will do the trick) I would reformat the internal drive and do a fresh install of Leopard, all updates, and then all of your Applications. Unless you REALLY want to get into this project (that involves removing the access door, front bezel, EMI shield, and LCD display before you gain access to the hard drive) I would recommend getting a big (500-750GB should do nicely), fast (7200RPM), firewire (400), external hard drive to house whatever is taking up so much space. iMac (Late 2006) - Technical Specifications (the second column)Īlso, I would like to upgrade to something in the 320+gig area *EDIT* forgot to post what kind of iMac I have you get a cookie) I have an iMac "Core 2 Duo" intel mac. I upgraded my iMac to 2.5 gigabytes of RAM, in case that is important. but knowing what kind of hard-drive I should buy first may be a good first step. I'm not sure where to start or what to do. I also have an external drive that is big enough to hold the back-up I found two apps called "carbon copy cloner" and "SuperDuper" Which are supposed to do that. I just don't know how to really do that either. Western Digital WD1600JS Specifications - Serial ATA Hard Drive, Hard DriveĪlso, I know I need to make a bootable copy of my hard drive. ![]() ![]() ![]() I did some research and found that I have a 160 GB (7200 RPM) Serial ATA hard drive, These are the full specs That is when I realized I have no idea what to do. It is becoming very slow to boot up and a pain to just push the save button (4 gigabytes left ) and I began to consider installing a new hard drive in my mac. I recently have begun to run low on my computers available space. ![]()
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