Introdução
Use this guide to upgrade or replace the solid-state drive in a MacBook Pro 13” Early 2013. This MacBook Pro uses a proprietary storage drive connector, and is therefore not compatible with common M.2 drives without the use of an adapter.
Before you perform this repair, if at all possible, back up your existing SSD. Then, either familiarize yourself with internet recovery or create a bootable external drive so you’ll be ready to install macOS onto your new drive and migrate your data to the new SSD.
Finally, we strongly recommend installing macOS 10.13 High Sierra (or a later macOS) before replacing the original SSD from your MacBook Pro. Most new SSDs require updated storage drivers not found in versions of macOS prior to High Sierra.
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Remove the following ten screws securing the lower case to the upper case:
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Two 2.3 mm P5 Pentalobe screws
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Eight 3.0 mm P5 Pentalobe screws
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Remove the plastic cover adhered to the battery contact board.
This plastic cover wasn’t included with the new battery so I placed the original one back in. Was it supposed to go back in? This detail wasn’t clear since the original cover didn’t fit exactly over the newer battery connector. Plus any stickiness of adhesive that may have been there was gone.
Hi, any issues with you computer after a year? I didn’t put mine back in either…
Kevin, I forgot to place mine back in! How is your laptop doing without it?
Is it ok if I did put the plastic cover back in?
yes, it is okay
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Remove the following screws securing the battery connector board to the logic board:
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Two 2.8 mm T6 Torx screws
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One 7.0 mm T6 Torx shouldered screw
Top screw in this image was not a T6. I found that a T5 bit fit this one.
I can not put back top screw holding the plastic part. Help please
The colors of the circles marking the locations of the screws in the photo are reversed.
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Remove the wide head 6.4 mm T6 Torx screw securing the battery connector to the logic board assembly.
I lost this screw! How important is it? Will it be okay with just the 3 previously removed screws?
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Grasp the Interposer with tweezers.
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Lift the Interposer off the logic board and remove it.
WHy to remove battery contact board? Replace can happen without it also, right.
You don’t want to work on a live system as you could damage parts
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you must lift it absolutely vertically, or it fouls against the locator pin in the corner- you can easily get the impression that it won’t come over the end of this pin- almost like it’s rivetted in. it isn’t. get a good grip on it with the tweezers in the centre hole & one of the sides, & lift it STRAIGHT up.
What happens if the Battery Contact Board fails?
Be extra careful when tightening down on the interposer. When I powered on upon completion, the battery was not connected. When I opened it back up, I saw that one of the little metal nubs holding the interposer in place had snapped off (the one on the side, not the corner). I was able to carefully tighten the wide head screw back in, watching the alignment, and the battery was successfully recognized. Hopefully the connection holds up.
So something similar happened to me. One the the metal alignment nubs snapped off, and when I went to screw down the interposer it started emitting a burning smell. Do you guys think I fried the board? There doesn’t look to be any visual damage but the computer wont turn on.
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Where can I buy a replacement interposer? I may have lost mine in the process of replacing the battery.
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I really dont understand why to unplug so many parts if the SSD can be easily removed without all this effort. its not even connected to the battery..
I was reassembling and put the interposer back and when the battery contact board touched the interposer, there was a little spark. Should I be worried?
I skipped this step but still OK.
Warning to all: I snapped off the alignment nub as well, as I removed the interposer, and now it won’t start with a brand new battery. Any solutions to a “snapped nub” issue?
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the SSD cable connector up from its socket on the logic board.
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SSD remains.
A most excellent step by step. I now need to figure out how to grant permission for my backup Air to read my removed Pro SSD files. Perhaps a link from here to that would be helpful.
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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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Excelente, muchas gracias
Ok, now that I replaced my SSD - how do I recover my OS?
You can boot your mac to the recovery pressing command + R while you turn on your mac, configure your wifi and then create the partition in the ssd using disk utility, then you can clos disk utility and proceed to the instalation of the OS, the installation will be downloaded from the apple servers so it will depend of your internet speed how long will it take.
Sieht so aus, als würde da eine ganz normale 2,5”-SSD reinpassen, wenn man den Einschub weglässt. Kann man das Kabel am MBP entfernen und ohne den Einschub benutzen?
Geht leider nicht. Die neue NVMe m.2 SSD muss eine Übergangslösung haben. Leicht zu finden beim Internett. Das Übergang ist ein kleines Zeug das Mann braucht der Länge und Datei - Brikett zur passen.
If don’t have one of those neat project mats, then you can use small pieces of flattened blu-tack to hold the screws. If you arrange them in the shape of your mac book cover, and put the screws down methodically, you can get a one-to-one mapping of the screws to the correct screw holes.
Toby Thurston - Responder
Or you can use an ice tray where you put the screws and the parts in separate bays in the same order as they come in the instructions.
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The colors of the circles marking the locations of the screws are reversed.
Homer Hegedus - Responder
On my model A1425 these were all 1.2mm P5 screws. They all looked the same to me.
bigfish333 - Responder
This is great! I used a small magnetic white board, and wrote on it to identify the parts as I went. This whole process, from the fast shipment to the great instructions to the complete, high quality, tool kit has been great. I’m typing this comment on my resurrected laptop. Thank you! Sue
Susan Greer - Responder