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

If your boot up time is increased after cloning your HDD with Superduper then you might want to run an 'archive and install'.

This is because the boot up files are not replaced in the same order.

The archive and install procedure replaces the OS [Leopard] with the original OS that came with your Mac [DVD disk].

Full details here:-

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710

Most people do not notice the increase in boot up time as it can be as little as 10 seconds extra. However mine went from 45 secs to 1m30s!

I got it down to just over seconds after the archive and install procedure.

Good luck.

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[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.

[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.

[bullychris]

No - it just replaces your OSX software.

[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.

[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.

[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]

@kayakcanberra

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

[bigblockeater]

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

[sfett08]

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

[drgr08]

does this modifies the applications or my data??