Long Boot Up Time After Cloning Your Apple Mac / Macbook Pro With SuperDuper? Fix Here.

[dispense1983]

I followed this advice after a HDD upgrade using Carbon Copy Cloner. After reinstalling SL (which automatically 'archive and installs', just pop in the original DVD) and updating software, it made NO difference. Followed @kayacanberra and booted using...

Systems Preferences > Startup Disk > Select your disk > click restart

System went from 1:03-20 to 39 seconds flat, which was about my boot time pre-upgrade. I'm sure this is the easiest way, but as I reinstalled OS X before, I cannot b 100%

[axxxxman]

I have been living with this for 5 months, I even changed hard drives to a Hybrid drive. I never knew what was causing the problem, then I upgraded to lion and noticed my boot time went from 70 sec. to 28, with the apple logo appearing in 7 sec. vs 35 sec, after upgrading to lion, I wanted to make a clone so I went to super duper, which was now not working so I reinstalled, instantly my boot times went back to 70 sec. searched, found this site, now I am a happy Gnome

[keithlhiker]

just did a drive replacement using superduper and bullychris'svideo. It worked exactly as shown.

Afterwards my boot time was increased and I was about to do the Archive and Install procedure outlined in this video when I read this comment here.

"This problem is actually normally caused by incorrect or no startup disk selected in system preferences.

Systems Preferences > Startup Disk > Select your disk > click restart

Done"

kayakcanberra

This is all that was needed to reduce boot up time.

[bigblockeater]

Is Super Duper better than using Carbon Copy Cloner? If so why, thanks.

[jodorowsky00]

So if i want to back up my harddrive to a state after i installed all my adobe programs and reinstall leopard the way you said will all my serials be lost again,because its a pain put all the serial every machine in the company.

[bullychris]

@jodorowsky00 No serials needed after restore.

[sfett08]

Thanks, i was having problems on how to fix this problem!

[drgr08]

does this modifies the applications or my data??

[laz3e]

@kayakcanberra

you are a fucking GENIUS!!!

my macbook pro starting time after having my digital board was replaced was about 1 minute,

now its about 15 seconds =D

[hmongherr]

Thanks a lot, my late 2009 mac mini was taking about 1 min. 43 sec. to boot after installing a new faster hard drive and memory. Now it only takes about 43 seconds to boot or less. Good job on the video.

[cshevlin]

Well I did not use Super Duper but was having the same problem. I just checked the start up disk and nothing was selected. So I picked the HD in the computer and my start times are down. I will keep an eye on this and if it still happens I will do the reinstall. Thanks again..

[MrHeerlenking]

Why cloning if you just re-install Leopard OSX Snow again.

[kayakcanberra]

This problem is actually normally caused by incorrect or no startup disk selected in system preferences.

Systems Preferences > Startup Disk > Select your disk > click restart

Done.

[bullychris]

No, as stated cloning your drive re-writes the boot up files and arranges them in a non default way making boot up times longer.

[theMrJMC]

I followed the bullychris video tutorials since they were the most helpful and thorough. After I installed my new HDD I did notice longer boot times at around 1min 30sec. After following kayakcanberra's advice, the boot time decreased tremendously down to less than 30sec. I believe the reason for this is that you have removed the internal drive it normally selects. I think the OSX fix works because it resets your preferences to select the current internal drive, although I am not an expert.

[keithlhiker]

@kayakcanberra

This was all I needed to do when I did a hard drive replacement to regain my fast boot time.

[67901j3]

@kayakcanberra I recently upgraded using carbon copy cloner, I was having the same symptoms. After selecting my new hard drive under sys.pref. my bootime went from over a minute to 22 seconds. Thank-you, I certainly didn't want to do all that ^^

@bullychris pretty dismissive... clearly there is some validity, albeit differences in method.

[bullychris]

No - it just replaces your OSX software.

[anthonypepito]

Does this erase all my data?

[Inf3ctd]

Thanks for the tutorial! where did you get that background ?