#NEW HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2009 INSTALL#
That gives him the Mac App Store, where he can download and install up to El Capitan (for an early 2009 iMac).ĭepending on how you erased the iMac's drive, it may still have the hidden Recovery HD partition. If the iMac's hard drive is completely blank, he needs to install Snow Leopard first (using an installation disc). Here are some internal hard drives for your iMac. But if youre willing to do some tinkering, you can replace the drive yourself.
#NEW HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2009 UPGRADE#
The iMac is a beautiful machine but it can be challenging to upgrade the internal hard drive. Is there a way to run boot camp from where he is?īoot Camp cannot be installed by itself. Best Buy customers often prefer the following products when searching for imac internal hard drives.
He wants to install Windows on it afterward. If this model originally came with Leopard, do you have the original disc that shipped with it (assuming you're the original owner)? Internally, an LED display, 4 RAM slots (to upgrade to a maximum of 16 GB RAM), more powerful video processing, and faster processors round out an impressive upgrade from the most recent 20' iMac. Externally, the machine features edge-to-edge glass and an aluminum rear bezel. Is the Snow Leopard disc you gave him the one you used to upgrade Leopard to Snow Leopard, on that iMac? In other words, did you ever successfully start up that iMac using that disc? In October 2009, Apple unveiled the new 21.5' iMac.
All you have to do is install it in your iMac and boot it up. Its setup so that you can install it in your iMac 2007 to 2011 and boot up your iMac. However, an iMac from late 2009 came with Snow Leopard pre-installed, so it may not start up from a retail Snow Leopard disc, if the version on disc is earlier than pre-installed version. Apple considers the memory in the 'Late 2009,' 'Mid-2010' and 'Mid-2011' Aluminum iMac models - all Aluminum iMacs with 21.5-Inch and 27-Inch displays and flat sides - to be a 'customer installable part' but the hard drive is not intended to be upgraded by end users. This hard drive is 1 TB (7,200 RPM) and its made by Seagate. After erasing its internal drive, you didn't do a clean install of some version of OS X before you sold it?Īn iMac from early 2009 came with Leopard pre-installed, so it should start up from a retail Snow Leopard installation disc.