Introdução
Use this guide to trade your optical drive for a second hard drive or SSD.
O que você precisa
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Place your thumbs in the depressions cut into the bottom cover.
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Rotate the bottom cover counter-clockwise until the white dot painted on the bottom cover is aligned with the ring inscribed on the outer case.
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Remove the two 11.3 mm T6 Torx screws securing the fan to the logic board near the antenna plate.
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Remove the single 3.5 mm T6 Torx screw securing the cowling to the heat sink.
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Remove the following screws securing the antenna plate to the mini:
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Two 6.6 mm T8 or T9 Torx screws
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Two 5.0 mm T8 Torx or 2.0 mm Hex screws (either will work)
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Remove the following three screws:
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One 5.0 mm T8 Torx or 2.0 mm Hex screw (either will work)
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One 16.2 mm T6 Torx screw
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One 26 mm T6 Torx standoff
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Ferramenta utilizada neste passo:Mac mini Logic Board Removal Tool$4.99
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Insert a Mac mini Logic Board Removal Tool into the two holes highlighted in red. Be sure it makes contact with the outer case below the logic board before proceeding.
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Carefully pull the tool toward the I/O board. The logic board and I/O board assembly should slightly slide out of the outer case.
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Cease prying when the I/O board is visibly separated from the outer case. Remove the Mac mini Logic Board Removal tool.
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Remove the 7.9 mm T6 Torx screw securing the power supply and optical drive to the outer case.
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Remove the hard drive from the mini, minding any cables that may get caught.
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Carefully de-route the IR sensor cables from the channel in the optical drive bracket.
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Remove the plastic positioner from the optical bay hard drive enclosure by pressing in on one of the clips on either side and lifting it up and out of the enclosure.
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Make sure that the hard drive connectors are facing down before placing it into the enclosure.
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Gently place the hard drive into the enclosure's hard drive slot.
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While firmly holding the enclosure in place with one hand, use your other hand to press the hard drive into the enclosure connectors.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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I've run through this tutorial twice. First time I switched our the HDD for a 1tb, and the DVD drive for an SSD. The HDD works but the machine didn't find the SSD. I then swapped them - it now finds the SSD but not in the HDD which is now in what used to be the optical drive slot.
Do I need to buy a new cable for the optical drive? As it appears that's what it's not reading, or is there something I've missed?
Thanks
You need to go to Disk Utility and format the SSD/Hard Drive.
Just completed this in under an hour, thanks in part to reading the whole guide once over before and reading all the comments about the various different steps, so thanks also to the commenters!
Amazingly, system booted first time and it sees the 2nd HDD (SSD actually), now to try setting up a Fusion drive :-)
I did it! With lots of help from my friends who work at an apple repair store... perhaps that is cheating?
I too am having trouble now with the disk utility recognizing the newly installed hard drive. Did I miss something? I followed the instructions perfectly. And my repair friends helped me with the "why won't this fit back together you tiny unibody you!"
Any suggestions for how to get the disk utility to recognize my drive I just worked so hard to put in there would be greatly appreciated!
