I thnk I’ll make a change to the usual post and let you in to a little story.
So the other day I was happily importing some more music into iTunes when I noticed I only had 3GB free on my MacBook’s hard drive. Oh dear.
So after doing some shopping around I found a 250GB WesternDigital hard drive and 4GB of RAM (an upgrade I’d been telling myself to do for a while now) and ordered promptly. I would like to note that I specifically ordered it so that it would arrive after 12 o’clock when I would be home from my exam. Typically enough, the only time when I want it later than I ordered, it arrives 45 minutes early at 11:15. Not only does it not get delivered at the time I set, and paid for, it then gets returned to the depot so I have to re-schedule it! Anyways, this was yesterday and so it finally arrived this afternoon (a big thank you to the next door neighbour who took it in 
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So after I returned home from another exam I got to work cloning the original drive to the new one, a very slow process I assure you, and not only does it take an age, it gets to 97% done and then hits an error and has to abort! I was using SuperDuper for those interested.
So by this point I was rather disgruntled with the whole ordeal and decided that I would just go with restoring from a Time Machine back up like I had originally intended, so anyway, I made one final last backup and then shutdown and popped the hood.
I decided to start with the one component that I had upgeraded before, the RAM, which went much smoother than I remembered last time. I then slid the HDD out of slot and began to follow the instructions on Macinstruct and hit another problem. Not having the right bloody screwdriver. Now my father is a builder and general handyman and even after searching through his entire tool set there was no sign of the elusive “Torx T8 Screwdriver” or even one looking remotely similar for that matter.
So now we return to the present after deciding to ditch the HDD upgrade for today and just to enjoy the new 2GB of RAM which I have to say makes a vast imprvement and now it’s only ~£60 for the 4GB set, you can’t go wrong.
After my final exam of the week tomorrow I’ll pay a friendly trip to the local hardware store where I *hope* they’ll have the wretched screwdriver and try again tomorrow.
I’ll keep you posted. Thanks
