4/15/2023 0 Comments Imac 2012 replace hard drive![]() I was terrified about cracking the screen, as the screen bezel has a strip of unreinforced glass at the edges that I've heard about other people damaging. Removing the screen was surprisingly painless I used the roller side of the blade to cut most of the adhesive (I gradually cut further with it, rather than cutting to full depth immediately) and then used the back side of the tool to fully separate any adhesive that was still partially attached. Well, I bit the bullet a couple of days ago and bought an SSD and the adhesive strips and screen-removal tool I needed. ![]() From other posts about hard drive issues, this seemed like the root of the problems I was experiencing, but I wasn't sure, and paying over a hundred bucks on some hardware that doesn't fix any problems kind of sucks. ![]() I made a post a little less than a month ago asking about my old late-2011 iMac, trying to decide whether I needed to replace my hard drive to make the computer usable again. I know I tried to find a few posts like this one before I made my decision (to be sure I could justify the money), so hopefully this post will help others as well. There've been other posts on this subreddit about replacing the HD with an SSD, but I think it can't hurt to give another story. ![]()
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