Hey guys I have a MacBook Pro that needs its hard drive replaced and possibly its sata cable so you have an suggestion on where to go? Not including the place in Golden Eagle because they only fix certain things.

Out the East gate of Yunda on Beimen Jie is a street full of restaurants. Towards the T-intersection at the OPPOSITE / OTHER end of that street is a non-authorized Apple repair store on the right - look carefully - tiny store with a TINY store front, but they have a glass case full of apple stuff - used laptops, iPhones, iPads, etc. It's the ONLY apple repair store on that street, that I know of.

For simple things, such as replacing your hard drive - they're more than amply qualified, without breaking anything important. If you have the torx wrenches (you can buy a set for cheap) and have access to you-tube (for the instructional videos) - and are somewhat brave and fearless - replacing the drive is a roughly 20 minute job for a novice - take your time, have a bowl to hold all the screws - maybe some post-it notes to label each screw and each hole - and you might be able to disassemble the laptop, put it back together, and use all the parts (I ALWAYS have spare screws left over after I'm done).

Suggest you get the newer 4TB 2.5" form factor hard drives - they're fast and great for almost never running out of space - although one can always expand to fill space with movies, videos, photos, books, etc ad infinitum.

As for the SATA cable - they can supply parts for a nominal fee.

There are plenty of repair places, but only one licensed Apple repair place.

If you are in warranty, you want a licensed place. If you are out of warranty, for a simple job like replacing a hard drive, I wouldn't worry. The only issue with replacing a hard drive is that you also need to replace the operating system, and cheap shops may not do that properly or at all.

There's also the budget option of beg/borrow/stealing apple screwdrivers and opening it yourself, which is basically what most repair places do.

Overall, given that you are asking the question, I would recommend considering the licensed place. There's one in the middle of town, and their used to be one on 121. I've been to both of them, the one on 121 was in my opinion poor in service, speed, parts and customers. I complained and it seems they have been de-listed.

The one in the middle of town, which I have used multiple times and always had good experiences with is behind Starbucks in Jingying Plaza on Huguo Lu.

You are best to turn up exactly when they open as the queue gets long really quickly (most people are repairing phones).

Their address in Chinese...

新亚－昆明店
云南省昆明市五华区威远街168号昆明金鹰购物广场Ｂ座1楼L1-01号
昆明, 云南 650000
0871-68184199/64644199

... you should probably call first and ask when they open, as unfortunately the website doesn't say when that is. Good luck.