Very well done. Clear and to the point. I am an IT Pro with 4 decades experience, but had never installed an SSD in customer's iMac 2007 20" until this weekend. Although this video was for iMac 2008, it seemed to be same as iMac 2007 and was just what I needed to see. Lots of screws in these old ones, but no glue...yay!!
Bro, i have one exactly like the one in this video... I swaped HDD for a SDD, put in 6gb of ram, and i dual boot Mojave and Lubuntu, and maaaan it flies
Got the same this week. Replaced HD with SSD, and installed latest Monterey with Open Core Legacy Patcher. A charm, considering it's a early 2008 iMac!
Wow, so much negativity. All I can say is that I own an early 2008 Mac I purchased new in the summer of 2008. I have used it daily ever since and have yet to have any problems whatsoever. Everything is original and the case has never been opened (though maybe I should so I can vaccum out all the dust). I payed $1200 for it back in '08 which is a lot of money. However, the reliability cannot be denied. And FYI, I was a convert at the time I purchased this because up until that point all I had used were PC's, EIGHT of them over the course of 15 years or so. Just relaying my personal experience with no unfounded bias either way. Great video. I'm actually thinking of replacing my factory drive with a new SSD. Now I'm off to search for a video which shows this replacement. Cheers.
I watched this video because I was nervous to take mine apart after I had received my tool kit. I had researched a guide and found one, but still was nervous at the thought of possibly cracking the glass. After watching you disassemble it, I feel pretty confident in doing so. I can now open it up, clean any dust it may have, maybe swap the HDD with an SSD, as well as replace the backlighting since the backlight went out. Thank you for this simple video! :)
Thanks for tutorial. Replacing hard drive on 2010 MacBook Pro was very simple by comparison, so instead of tossing your MacBook Pro, when the hard drive quits, replace it with an SSD and enjoy the satisfaction of giving old machine a new life with speed performance much better than when it was new.
I am so glad you made this video. I wasn't going to give up on my "kitchen/Public use" 2008 iMac as it is still good enough for what I need it for. Your instructions were perfect! I did however struggle to not get my dam fingerprints on the glass!! Thanks again, my old baby is back!
I have that iMac with the Exact same problem sitting 2 meters to the left of me. Thinking about fixing it and because of this video, i'm actually going to get around to it. Thanks!
Super awesome. Been running my great 2008 iMac (ran nonstop 15 years as a DayLite server) until HDD died. First tested it by running it off USB eSATA connector to an older MacBook Pro 2010 (horrible known design defect that makes it kernel panic) 2.5” 250GB HDD. It is slow but runs ok. Next I cloned that to a 500GB Samsung eSATA SSD. Slow but runs. Next, I upgraded the 2X 1GB RAM chips with 2X 4GB to make 8 GB. Just installed. But decided to do long awaited HDD swap out too. Had seen similar longer video a year ago but wanted to refresh my memory. Found your great video. Simple & to the point. Just thought, I’ll likely need a 2.5” SSD to 3.5” bracket adapter. So it may have to be after the 4th of July. Thx again.
Well done and great video production skills . Thank you for the clear walk through. Clear to the point narration. Doing the same thing today only now SSD's are the way to go.
Had identical machine given to me to fix and pass onto a charity. Couldn't get the software to upgrade because of manufacturer's idiocy. Ripped off the operating system, installed Ubuntu and tadaa! Wonderful. Bit of messing about to convert iso file to DMG, but did it using the terminal on the Mac and all worked well.
Hi Colin, great video - thank you for taking the time to put it together and sharing it with everybody! My father needs me to replace the hard drive on his iMac, and the question we had was what happens to the OS. I see that in the last few seconds of the video, you insert a usb stick, which is probably bootable and contains the OS, correct? If so, which version would you recommend? Snow leopard, el capitan? Which one works particularly well on Imacs like this one? Any answer is greatly appreciated, thanks! Sincerely, Pete
The temperature sensor on many of the hard drives in these iMacs is the tricky part. On many of them, the sensor wire plugs into a non-standard connector on the original drive, meaning on replacement drives lacking this connector, the cable will be left hanging unplugged and not connected. On others like yours shown here, it was simply attached to a spot on the outside of the original drive, but who knows whether the spot you placed it on the new drive emits heat in an equivalent way to feed the sensor. The result of these sensor situations is that after many drive upgrades, the iMac's fans will run at full blast constantly because of the thermal sensor's input to the mainboard, and you will need to install software on the iMac to compensate for this and properly handle the fan speeds. There were several similar competing programs created that do that job.
Yep. I installed an SSD in a 2009 iMac and have this issue. I did look at buying the OWC cable to fix this issue but then just used SSDfancontrol app as it was free as opposed to $80! I'm only really using it as a 2nd display so the silence of the SSD was the key as the drive itself was fine.
I can't complain, things aren't going too bad, got some more games in for my little collection, so that's me happy. How are you keeping? (He always asks "how's it going", and yet no one seems to answer...)
You can install in this computer modern and well supported OS called Linux Mint. It runs latest Linux compatible programs (Word processor, latest internet browsers etc), Linux Mint 19 is supported untill 2023. You can try it if it is suitable to computer and your needs before installing it on hard drive, by booting computer with Linux Mint live DVD. Perhaps somebody have time to make tutorial out of it ;).
@kat Linux is musch lighter to hardware than old MacOS. It's also lighter than Windows 7. Windows 7 is supported less than a year anymore. Windows 10 is not very compatible with old hardware.Linux needs less resources, so it makes old shit computer much better surely.
I will swap the Hard drive easy. My problem is I am not a software guy. I am a hardware guy. Do you have a video of how to install Software after HD swap???
"Simple tasks" for a 2008? I'm typing this right now on mine - it's my primary PC anymore, and I'm actually more of a Linux guy than Win. Talked them down to $125 out the door with Mac keyboard and upgraded it myself easily to 6GB RAM. Original 320 HD is still inside and I boot from a 500GB USB3 Samsung SSD external drive (migrated the OS with CCC) plus 2 additional Firewire-800 external drive docks. It does almost everything, although dual-booting to Linux (even with 'refind' installed) is a PITA. The dual-core iMac will run Virtualbox just fine and still runs all modern browsers, Thunderbird, VLC (I use it to watch DVDs and streaming - the builtin speakers are quite excellent), Libreoffice, Carbon Copy Cloner, Nomachine NX and XQuartz for X11 support. It even runs ZFS. :-)
my drive died finally just about a week ago, i just put a samsung SSD in a firewire 400 case, installed snow leopard from DVD to the external SSD then upgraded to el cap and its working faster then it ever has.. without even trying to open up the imac... saved alot of time + effort and got a similar result - its a little slow to wake up from sleep as the hd has to wake up aswell but other than that its still faster then it was at any point with the internal mechanical drive on the sata interface; even with it running at fw400 speed instead of fw800.
Pretty cool video. My last find was a iMac G3 indigo still in original box but only bad part it had a bad crt and it needed new capacitors plus a new cd drive. Sadly I have 0 experience taking it apart and replacing them so I just returned it. Shame that I was not able to repair it but it was a good find.
I always thought the put laptop 2.5" drives in the iMac. I am surprised that it has a standard size hard drive. I would have stuck an SSD in there if it were mine
Thanks for this vid!! I found this same exact model. Giving it a ram upgrade as well (I'd love to hear what you think), I am thinking to do an external SSD velcro it to the back and use as Start-up disk. Any thoughts?
What would you say is the least upgrade friendly Mac ever made besides the most recent ones? MacBook Airs are gimmies. Something along the lines of the new Microsoft Surface laptop that some say is impossible to put back together because everything is glued together.
I really like the piece of advice you give at the end. Although, I doubt many would listen to that since most people see their local charity places as a place to dump their garbage. I know I've been guilty of doing that.
Nice mate! Mine just lost the motherboard so means that i've to reolace the whole motherboard. If any, will try to take off my hard drive but now i have clear i have to buy a new one becauae the repairing will be too much money.
OK, I am a young lady at 85 yrs and I think I may install a new SSD on my 2008 iMac I think I can do it...I hope I can anyway.....In my younger days I tinkered with computers , installing a new H when needed...so what do I have to lose? Thank you for your video!
Please can you do a video on the installation at the end please? How to format and install on the new SSD. I’d like to do this, but put Linux on to it !
Lol I have a 2008 iMac with the 320GB drive and the SMART status says it’s basically just around the corner from failing. I don’t think it’s worth the effort to replace it though. I just use it as a secondary machine for Spotify and CZcams.
Perfect video my current IMAC is the later 2012 which runs like a charm having only had to replace the power board this month. I have my 2008 model in a box without a scratch on it which bit the dust back in you guessed it 2012. So although it was a black screen death I won't be sure what it requires till I get a test lamp on it which I don't have. There is an Apple Doctor up the road from me and service costs are cheap and is turn around as you wait as witnessed by my last visit, but I would like to take on the task myself as your tutorial is excellent all be it a different component. Its still a good looking machine and I will gladly want to bring it back to life. It can be a hand me down to my 12 year old son. Great upload and a definite thumbs and subscribe from myself.
Thanks Colin, such an easy to follow guide. I did appreciate your advice also at the end, still wondering what I should do with that moose head and 6 CD changer that were gifted to me... LOL. I was given this 2008 with a dead drive, have done the external drive idea, but can only upgrade to Snow Leopard, I am getting gifted a HDD 2TB WD. Any quick idea on the cleaning? is the usual home vacuum OK? thanks again
The HDD in mine still works. But the display is starting to go bad with a blue line down the middle. I rarely use it anymore, but I can’t stand to part with it.
I have a 2008 iMac all in one and the chime keeps going off and it goes from booting screen with writing and then goes to the white screen with Apple then the chime goes off and then u see the black screen with writing and it just keeps doing over and over
4:08 Since at the time of making this video El Capitan was no longer the latest version of macOS, it wasn't available in the App Store anymore. How did you get El Capitan downloaded and loaded on that flash drive, Colin?
You were better off installing an ssd drive because of increased load speed and reliability. Pfff so much hard complicated work to replace a hhd and btw 9 years is not that old to me 2009 feels more like 9 day's ago, but still,,, It was as alway's a great video to watch.
I have this exact machine. Hard Drive died so I bought an external SSD put Linux on it and it runs like a top. You can use this machine just throw Linux on it and you will have a modern useable system again.
How did you reconnect the screen! The wires are blue and gray going to blue wires. and hard to see how to connect back. Mine have dots but I have not clue how they are to go?
Wich "latest" OS can this machine run? Because the I-MAC I've got (the same machine) has to be sold, according to my boss, in/at the thrift-shop where I work as a volunteer. And, what would it be worth to you in the end prise wise?
the Thank you very much . This video was very informative and instilled me with the confidence to perform future repairs / replacements. I do have one problem ,after installing my new hard disk onto my 2008 Imac, an icon consisting of a ? sign within a folder appears on my screen and nothing else. Can you advice on a solution.
Hi there Can you help , after I replace HD turn on computer then click option computer turn HD pictures then click the arrow then IMac turn signal stop ?! After few seconds I Mac turn off . So what wrong for new HD or iMac ? HD I bought on eBay they preloaded High Sierra 10.13 My iMac 2009 . Thanks
the big difference with a pc is you can replace the motherboard, the cpu, the memory and hard drive and you get a brand new modern computer for the faction of the cost, I used mac products before and not impressed at all as every function is too complicated to do, you have to press command, alt and something else to do something, then command, alt and F to fill the screen. No thanks.
Please help! I also have this model. The hard disk has broken down. All data is lost. I put in a new SSD hard drive, but I do not know how to install the operating system because I'm working in Windows and I do not understand so much. Thank you !
Buy a USB installer for El Capitan 10.11 (try amazon) and boot from that to install the latest OSX that will work on a 2008 iMac. Or install Linux from usb
Very well done. Clear and to the point. I am an IT Pro with 4 decades experience, but had never installed an SSD in customer's iMac 2007 20" until this weekend. Although this video was for iMac 2008, it seemed to be same as iMac 2007 and was just what I needed to see. Lots of screws in these old ones, but no glue...yay!!
Great video as always. Older macs are so much more interesting than today's.
Yeah especially iMac G3s.
scyther1 I'm with you man.
Bro, i have one exactly like the one in this video... I swaped HDD for a SDD, put in 6gb of ram, and i dual boot Mojave and Lubuntu, and maaaan it flies
Even now
@@MrDaftJustice that’s exactly what I just did with mine. It hauls ass now.
Got the same this week. Replaced HD with SSD, and installed latest Monterey with Open Core Legacy Patcher. A charm, considering it's a early 2008 iMac!
Wow, so much negativity. All I can say is that I own an early 2008 Mac I purchased new in the summer of 2008. I have used it daily ever since and have yet to have any problems whatsoever. Everything is original and the case has never been opened (though maybe I should so I can vaccum out all the dust). I payed $1200 for it back in '08 which is a lot of money. However, the reliability cannot be denied.
And FYI, I was a convert at the time I purchased this because up until that point all I had used were PC's, EIGHT of them over the course of 15 years or so.
Just relaying my personal experience with no unfounded bias either way.
Great video. I'm actually thinking of replacing my factory drive with a new SSD. Now I'm off to search for a video which shows this replacement.
Cheers.
this is what I like to see you doing, Colin. I've learned much from your videos, and I thank your professionalism
I watched this video because I was nervous to take mine apart after I had received my tool kit. I had researched a guide and found one, but still was nervous at the thought of possibly cracking the glass. After watching you disassemble it, I feel pretty confident in doing so. I can now open it up, clean any dust it may have, maybe swap the HDD with an SSD, as well as replace the backlighting since the backlight went out. Thank you for this simple video! :)
Thanks Colin you just saved me $300 - I needed to take my HD out so I could try & save my data and I managed to save about 80% of it thanks to you 😍!
Thanks for tutorial. Replacing hard drive on 2010 MacBook Pro was very simple by comparison, so instead of tossing your MacBook Pro, when the hard drive quits, replace it with an SSD and enjoy the satisfaction of giving old machine a new life with speed performance much better than when it was new.
14 years ago they made them easy to open up and repair... wow how things have changed. Support right to repair
Doing this today upgrading to an SSD. Your video is the clearest most concise I could find. Thanks dude!
I am so glad you made this video. I wasn't going to give up on my "kitchen/Public use" 2008 iMac as it is still good enough for what I need it for. Your instructions were perfect! I did however struggle to not get my dam fingerprints on the glass!! Thanks again, my old baby is back!
I have that iMac with the Exact same problem sitting 2 meters to the left of me. Thinking about fixing it and because of this video, i'm actually going to get around to it. Thanks!
Super awesome. Been running my great 2008 iMac (ran nonstop 15 years as a DayLite server) until HDD died. First tested it by running it off USB eSATA connector to an older MacBook Pro 2010 (horrible known design defect that makes it kernel panic) 2.5” 250GB HDD. It is slow but runs ok. Next I cloned that to a 500GB Samsung eSATA SSD. Slow but runs. Next, I upgraded the 2X 1GB RAM chips with 2X 4GB to make 8 GB. Just installed. But decided to do long awaited HDD swap out too. Had seen similar longer video a year ago but wanted to refresh my memory. Found your great video. Simple & to the point. Just thought, I’ll likely need a 2.5” SSD to 3.5” bracket adapter. So it may have to be after the 4th of July. Thx again.
Thanks for making this detailed video. I had one mac with a bad screen and another with a bad hard drive. Now I have a working computer.
Well done and great video production skills . Thank you for the clear walk through. Clear to the point narration.
Doing the same thing today only now SSD's are the way to go.
Instead of tinkering with old cars, men in the 21st century tinker with old iMacs. ;)
And old cars.
Eyyyyy this is perfect! I have a 2008 iMac that needs this! Thx!!
THANK YOU! Needed to donate my old computer but didn't want to send it with the harddrive! so appreciate the detailed how to!
Had identical machine given to me to fix and pass onto a charity. Couldn't get the software to upgrade because of manufacturer's idiocy.
Ripped off the operating system, installed Ubuntu and tadaa! Wonderful. Bit of messing about to convert iso file to DMG, but did it using the terminal on the Mac and all worked well.
I don't own a Mac but this was still fun to watch.
me whenever I see apple related content
A very helpful guide. I have the exact spec iMac that I gave to my brother. Good to know the tear down isn't so bad.
Hi Colin,
great video - thank you for taking the time to put it together and sharing it with everybody!
My father needs me to replace the hard drive on his iMac, and the question we had was what happens to the OS.
I see that in the last few seconds of the video, you insert a usb stick, which is probably bootable and contains the OS, correct?
If so, which version would you recommend? Snow leopard, el capitan? Which one works particularly well on Imacs like this one?
Any answer is greatly appreciated, thanks!
Sincerely,
Pete
brilliant video,so easy to follow , a born teacher !
The temperature sensor on many of the hard drives in these iMacs is the tricky part. On many of them, the sensor wire plugs into a non-standard connector on the original drive, meaning on replacement drives lacking this connector, the cable will be left hanging unplugged and not connected. On others like yours shown here, it was simply attached to a spot on the outside of the original drive, but who knows whether the spot you placed it on the new drive emits heat in an equivalent way to feed the sensor. The result of these sensor situations is that after many drive upgrades, the iMac's fans will run at full blast constantly because of the thermal sensor's input to the mainboard, and you will need to install software on the iMac to compensate for this and properly handle the fan speeds. There were several similar competing programs created that do that job.
Yep. I installed an SSD in a 2009 iMac and have this issue. I did look at buying the OWC cable to fix this issue but then just used SSDfancontrol app as it was free as opposed to $80! I'm only really using it as a 2nd display so the silence of the SSD was the key as the drive itself was fine.
I can't complain, things aren't going too bad, got some more games in for my little collection, so that's me happy. How are you keeping?
(He always asks "how's it going", and yet no one seems to answer...)
and then there is me thats like, no aint depressing more people today lmao
Enjoyed the video and would like to consult on more tips for my iMac 8.1
You can install in this computer modern and well supported OS called Linux Mint.
It runs latest Linux compatible programs (Word processor, latest internet browsers etc),
Linux Mint 19 is supported untill 2023. You can try it if it is suitable to computer and your needs before installing it on hard drive, by booting computer with Linux Mint live DVD.
Perhaps somebody have time to make tutorial out of it ;).
@kat
Linux is musch lighter to hardware than old MacOS. It's also lighter than Windows 7. Windows 7 is supported less than a year anymore. Windows 10 is not very compatible with old hardware.Linux needs less resources, so it makes old shit computer much better surely.
Watching this on a 2008 imac (that I still use to do work)
All that for a hard drive. Ouch
I will swap the Hard drive easy. My problem is I am not a software guy. I am a hardware guy. Do you have a video of how to install Software after HD swap???
"Simple tasks" for a 2008? I'm typing this right now on mine - it's my primary PC anymore, and I'm actually more of a Linux guy than Win. Talked them down to $125 out the door with Mac keyboard and upgraded it myself easily to 6GB RAM. Original 320 HD is still inside and I boot from a 500GB USB3 Samsung SSD external drive (migrated the OS with CCC) plus 2 additional Firewire-800 external drive docks. It does almost everything, although dual-booting to Linux (even with 'refind' installed) is a PITA. The dual-core iMac will run Virtualbox just fine and still runs all modern browsers, Thunderbird, VLC (I use it to watch DVDs and streaming - the builtin speakers are quite excellent), Libreoffice, Carbon Copy Cloner, Nomachine NX and XQuartz for X11 support. It even runs ZFS. :-)
The intro was so cool
Thankyou so much my bro! 🇧🇷🇬🇧
This is a brilliant video - thank you so much for posting. I was able to open up my iMac and replace the HDD with an SSD easily after watching.
my drive died finally just about a week ago, i just put a samsung SSD in a firewire 400 case, installed snow leopard from DVD to the external SSD then upgraded to el cap and its working faster then it ever has.. without even trying to open up the imac... saved alot of time + effort and got a similar result - its a little slow to wake up from sleep as the hd has to wake up aswell but other than that its still faster then it was at any point with the internal mechanical drive on the sata interface; even with it running at fw400 speed instead of fw800.
Pretty cool video. My last find was a iMac G3 indigo still in original box but only bad part it had a bad crt and it needed new capacitors plus a new cd drive. Sadly I have 0 experience taking it apart and replacing them so I just returned it. Shame that I was not able to repair it but it was a good find.
Great showing of removing the screen and plates, etc... nice explanation.
There are patches now to update the os to catalina/mojave. If theres enough ram on the machine it runs ok and allows for more robust stuff.
This is just a suggestion but I would love to see a vid on how to take apart/clean a Wii done by you.
Super helpful and easy to follow along. Thank you!!
i use this model imac as my main computer and it's faster than my 3 year old laptop!
I always thought the put laptop 2.5" drives in the iMac. I am surprised that it has a standard size hard drive. I would have stuck an SSD in there if it were mine
I think I have this exact same model iMac sitting in storage at the moment.
Thanks for this vid!!
I found this same exact model. Giving it a ram upgrade as well (I'd love to hear what you think), I am thinking to do an external SSD velcro it to the back and use as Start-up disk. Any thoughts?
Thanks for the helpful video!
Yeah boy great video! Do you find stuff like this often?
Thank you, this vid helped me repair my Mac.
What would you say is the least upgrade friendly Mac ever made besides the most recent ones? MacBook Airs are gimmies. Something along the lines of the new Microsoft Surface laptop that some say is impossible to put back together because everything is glued together.
I really like the piece of advice you give at the end. Although, I doubt many would listen to that since most people see their local charity places as a place to dump their garbage. I know I've been guilty of doing that.
Why didn't you replace it for an SSD?
He just used what he had lying around
I'm curious to see an SSD swap in on of these myself. It seems like it could be a great challenge.
Quality useful vlog. Thanks for posting.🇬🇧👍
You know, I bet it's pretty easy to find a replacement glass panel. If you wanted to donate it without the scratches it probably wouldn't cost much.
Thank you 👍
wow you channels growing quick
Nice mate! Mine just lost the motherboard so means that i've to reolace the whole motherboard. If any, will try to take off my hard drive but now i have clear i have to buy a new one becauae the repairing will be too much money.
OK, I am a young lady at 85 yrs and I think I may install a new SSD on my 2008 iMac I think I can do it...I hope I can anyway.....In my younger days I tinkered with computers , installing a new H when needed...so what do I have to lose? Thank you for your video!
Ross Geller now a techie
Please can you do a video on the installation at the end please? How to format and install on the new SSD. I’d like to do this, but put Linux on to it !
Lol I have a 2008 iMac with the 320GB drive and the SMART status says it’s basically just around the corner from failing. I don’t think it’s worth the effort to replace it though. I just use it as a secondary machine for Spotify and CZcams.
dude, you don't end a video like that. show us how it runs...come on. on your podcast maybe?
Perfect video my current IMAC is the later 2012 which runs like a charm having only had to replace the power board this month. I have my 2008 model in a box without a scratch on it which bit the dust back in you guessed it 2012. So although it was a black screen death I won't be sure what it requires till I get a test lamp on it which I don't have. There is an Apple Doctor up the road from me and service costs are cheap and is turn around as you wait as witnessed by my last visit, but I would like to take on the task myself as your tutorial is excellent all be it a different component. Its still a good looking machine and I will gladly want to bring it back to life. It can be a hand me down to my 12 year old son. Great upload and a definite thumbs and subscribe from myself.
Thank you!
Very helpful!
I think the 2008 models are the best looking imacs imo
this is an amazing video!!
Thanks Colin, such an easy to follow guide. I did appreciate your advice also at the end, still wondering what I should do with that moose head and 6 CD changer that were gifted to me... LOL. I was given this 2008 with a dead drive, have done the external drive idea, but can only upgrade to Snow Leopard, I am getting gifted a HDD 2TB WD. Any quick idea on the cleaning? is the usual home vacuum OK? thanks again
The HDD in mine still works. But the display is starting to go bad with a blue line down the middle. I rarely use it anymore, but I can’t stand to part with it.
Hey man, how did you create the USB stick? Mine wont be recognized
I've had good luck using the Diskmaker X app to build bootable OS X install drives.
Awesome video! :)
Good Job
wow, superb video! thanks very much, greets louis
thats my best friend your talking about.
Its not old...i run patched osx catalina on it...some features are missing but not something i need anyway....
You sure about the "too old" part? Mine is running Mojave.
I have the 2007 iMac which I still use on an almost daily basis. How could someone want to throw it away?
Max out CPU and RAM, add an SSD and Linux Mint and Boom, cheap daily driver.
Actually the Torx 9 is too big for those screws in mine, so I have to buy a new couple of Torxs just in case
Dani is correct, they are T8 screws
I never new that the from came off like that.. wow.... where can i get that phillips screwdriver. i need to take my hard drive out
I have a 2008 iMac all in one and the chime keeps going off and it goes from booting screen with writing and then goes to the white screen with Apple then the chime goes off and then u see the black screen with writing and it just keeps doing over and over
4:08 Since at the time of making this video El Capitan was no longer the latest version of macOS, it wasn't available in the App Store anymore. How did you get El Capitan downloaded and loaded on that flash drive, Colin?
I keep copies of every version of the macOS installers just in case...it’s proven useful!
@@ThisDoesNotCompute R.I.P. your storage space. :D No but seriously it's a good idea.
You were better off installing an ssd drive because of increased load speed and reliability.
Pfff so much hard complicated work to replace a hhd and btw 9 years is not that old to me 2009 feels more like 9 day's ago, but still,,,
It was as alway's a great video to watch.
Is it possible to transfer the old data onto the new drive, I’ve loads of work on my old IMac I’d love to save after replacing the hard drive
I have this exact machine. Hard Drive died so I bought an external SSD put Linux on it and it runs like a top. You can use this machine just throw Linux on it and you will have a modern useable system again.
How did you reconnect the screen! The wires are blue and gray going to blue wires. and hard to see how to connect back. Mine have dots but I have not clue how they are to go?
Wich "latest" OS can this machine run?
Because the I-MAC I've got (the same machine) has to be sold, according to my boss, in/at the thrift-shop where I work as a volunteer.
And, what would it be worth to you in the end prise wise?
2008 imac will run on newer os versions
the Thank you very much . This video was very informative and instilled me with the confidence to perform future repairs / replacements. I do have one problem ,after installing my new hard disk onto my 2008 Imac, an icon consisting of a ? sign within a folder appears on my screen and nothing else. Can you advice on a solution.
I’m one year late but install the operating system on it
I know a lot of people who are still using their old Mac due to the new one being so much money
I have seen the video but unfortunately i don't think that still i m able to open my imac 2008 and replace it's hardisk with 1tb.
Hi there
Can you help , after I replace HD turn on computer then click option computer turn HD pictures then click the arrow then IMac turn signal stop ?! After few seconds I Mac turn off . So what wrong for new HD or iMac ?
HD I bought on eBay they preloaded High Sierra 10.13
My iMac 2009 . Thanks
If only they used magnets and screws in the new ones instead of glue to screw YOU
(Well, and maybe to save a couple of pennies)
Have you tried SierraPatcher with that iMac?
the big difference with a pc is you can replace the motherboard, the cpu, the memory and hard drive and you get a brand new modern computer for the faction of the cost, I used mac products before and not impressed at all as every function is too complicated to do, you have to press command, alt and something else to do something, then command, alt and F to fill the screen. No thanks.
is there anyway to recover data off the dead hard drive? i think mine is dead. also can a dead hard drive cause the computer not to turn on?
Please help! I also have this model. The hard disk has broken down. All data is lost. I put in a new SSD hard drive, but I do not know how to install the operating system because I'm working in Windows and I do not understand so much. Thank you !
Buy a USB installer for El Capitan 10.11 (try amazon) and boot from that to install the latest OSX that will work on a 2008 iMac. Or install Linux from usb
hey, what's the name of the song that played before the intro? :)
Put an SSD it will fly :D
oh yeah... an iMac from 2008 is "too old"...
thats bullshit
yet the latest version of Windows will run just fine.
How would I get a new hard drive cable
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