[broadmate2003]

I might in the future upgrade my hard drive from the factory 60Gigs to 320Gigs or a 500gigs HD but I do not know about SATA II and SATA I so I was just wondering if I bought the Snow Leopard Upgrade for £25 will it be that I only need the Snow Leopard Disc or to install Leopard before I install Snow Leopard


Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.13f3
Serial Number (system): 4H7121XRWGK

[Yankee Rose]

Hello:

Legally, the upgrade disc only upgrades the current OS X version to Snow Leopard.

You would need to either purchase the full version of Snow Leopard, or reinstall Tiger (10.4), which came originally with your Macbook and then install the Snow Leopard upgrade.

NOTE: The only Apple authorized way to upgrade from Tiger (10.4) directly to Snow Leopard (10.6) is to purchase the $169 Mac Boxed Set, unless you upgraded to Leopard (10.5) prior.

Have you considered purchasing an external FireWire 400 HDD instead?

Hope that helps.

[broadmate2003]

Sorry, for the late reply.

I have updated to Leopard from Tiger after writing that post and upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. It runs quite well on the 2gigs of ram, but I do want to upgrade my hard drive as I'm probably need to rely on this machine for more than what I thought it would be of 3yrs. I wonder about a possible upgrade for my 60GB Hard Drive as I want to make it reliable still for a couple of years more than 3yrs.

[zoombini]

I have the same laptop. I backed up the macbook using time machine.

I then took out the current hard drive (google fro the instructions, but it's very straightforward) and replaced it with the 320gb WD Scorpio Blue SATA HD. I then copied my time machine backup across to the new drive using the snow leopard disk. Worked a treat