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    Boot Camp Slows down Mac OS X

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mattmjb0188, Jun 24, 2010.

  1. mattmjb0188

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    Every time I partition the drive for boot camp and successfully install Windows 7 my Mac OS X boot time increases. I have an Intel X-25 M solid state drive and am getting boot times of 39 seconds after I do this. I also installed 10.6.4 and boot time was pretty bad then I left the computer sit for a little bit and it was fine. After I installed boot camp I:

    Repaired the file permissions
    Reset PRAM
    Used to Onyx to clean out the boot
    Rebooted a dozen times lol
    Made sure OS X is listed as the startup disk

    Does OS X need time to index the new partition or something which is causing Snow Leopard to boot slow? Thanks

    Boot time also increases with either Parallels or VMware installed on 10.6.4.
     
    mattmjb0188, Jun 24, 2010
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    sorry to bump but this just killing me ):

    anyone install a fresh copy of SL then update to 10.6.4 and experience this?
     
    mattmjb0188, Jun 24, 2010
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    I installed windows 7 yesterday and my boot time the same ? :s
     
    xDC, Jun 25, 2010
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    I found out its Mac OS X managing the boot cache. Mine is fine now with boot camp. Perhaps this is only in 10.6.4?
     
    mattmjb0188, Jun 25, 2010
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    could be, but im also using the standard HDD
     
    xDC, Jun 25, 2010
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    ya don't know what your missing :p j/k
     
    mattmjb0188, Jun 25, 2010
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    I find myself simply closing the lid and letting my MBP sleep when not in use. Much faster startup that way. :p
     
    dbam987, Jun 25, 2010
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    but if they have bootcamp, at some point they will probably want to go back into OS X... which requires rebooting, silly :p
     
    ygohome, Jun 25, 2010
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    I didn't notice my boot time increasing after partitioning my original drive for a bootcamp partition. But I never tried timing it either.

    When I swapped out my original drive for a faster 500GB drive... then I noticed it took a bit longer. But maybe I was imagining it too. The only time it REALLY REALLY took a long long time to boot up (meaning it was sitting long time in the apple splash screen with the grey background) was when I was experimenting with the OS X booting into 64 bit mode.

    I have bootcamp windows partition on a separate drive from my OS X. Seems to boot pretty decent time. It ain't no SSD but it's no slouch. But again, I've never timed it with a stop watch.
     
    ygohome, Jun 25, 2010
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    Oh, right :D. In that case, a virtual machine running Windows would solve the problem :p.
     
    dbam987, Jun 25, 2010
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    It's weird because I've noticed this pattern. Last night I installed the trial of VMware for fun and then my Mac OS X boot time increased. I then left OS X sit for a while and sometime during that time it must have indexed the boot cache because boot time was fine again. Same thing goes for the boot camp partition.

    My guess would be that the average user doesn't notice, then and after a few reboots its back to normal again. I highly recommend the Intel X25 M 160gb SSD. Switching between OS X and Windows 7 takes about 15 seconds. Worth every penny in my opinion.

    Anyway it would make sense that OS X indexes files so boot up can be faster. Just don't understand why this slows down when there is a new partition or virtual machine software is installed. Then it just fixes itself. This could be only with 10.6.4. Oh well.
     
    mattmjb0188, Jun 25, 2010
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