Noob question: replacing Macbook Pro HDD and installing Mac OS?

Question

Hard disks

Good afternoon, dear ones.
The questions, of course, are completely Nubian, but I want to dot the i's for myself (I just haven't come across Macs before).
The Internet says one thing, consultants in stores say another (although I have not trusted them for a long time).
Macbook's stock HDD is almost dead. I want to replace.
1) Is it possible to take a regular 2.5'' HDD for replacement?
2) Are there any pitfalls from the Macbook firmware in terms of replacing the HDD?
3) Installing Mac OS in this case will really pass, as it is written on the Internet (There - Here - Next - Ok), or are there pitfalls?
PS Please do not kick too much :)

Answer 1

1. yes
2. no
3. yes (you need a disk / flash drive with an axis, because there will be no partition recovery on the new hard
, of course) via USB, boot from a disk / flash drive and clone an existing hard, then you don’t have to reinstall and configure anything

Answer 2

1. yes, but there is a limit on the size of the disk itself. Those that are more than 750 GB are sometimes “a little higher than necessary”, and therefore you can’t insert it there.
2. no
3. yes.
If the beech is a maximum of a year old, then you can install it even if you have only the Internet. He himself will put the OS with which he was sold. At the moment of "ta-daaaam" hold down Command + Option + r. It's called Internet Recovery.

Answer 3

Please note that starting from Lion, the installer is sold in AppStor and it is distributed on torrent trackers.
If it (the image) is simply written to disk, then nothing will be installed. It is placed only from under MacOS;
To burn its disk, right-click on the installer and select "Show Package Contents", go to the SharedSupport folder and copy the InstallESD.dmg file. This is exactly the file that is the image of the boot disk. It can be safely cloned to a disk or flash drive.

Answer 4

There is an option without reinstallation: connect a new drive via USB, merge the image of the old HDD using the disk utility (recovery partition, specify the new drive as the destination), and then insert a new one and boot from it.

Answer 5

The only thing I have encountered is that it does not see the flash drive with the system made in the disk utility, the Lion DiskMaker program helped a lot in it, just select the .dmg with the OS X 7. * or 8. * you need that you accidentally downloaded :)

Answer 6

We put a new HDD and / or SSD and press cmd + R when turning it on.