Slow Boot time after HDD upgrade

I upgraded my RAM and HD a couple of months ago. At first the boot time shortened to about 30 seconds, but in the last several weeks it has slowed to close to 2 minutes. Here's everything I've tried:

1. Ran all clean-up utilities in Onyx.
2. Repaired disk permissions in the "disk utility" app (I think that's what it's called).
3. Reset NVRAM/PRAM.
4. Resolved duplicate fonts in the font book (suggested in another thread in another forum).

If you have any other suggestions please share them with me. I haven't installed any new programs in this time frame so I have no idea why it suddenly slowed back down. It's very frustrating.

TIA.

(to the mods...I wasn't sure if this was a hardware or software issue. Please move this thread if needed)

Have you checked to see what may be running at start up?

System Preferences, Accounts, Login Items.

MacIntosh HD/Library/StartupItems/

MacIntosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents/

MacIntosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons/

I checked the startup items last night and there was just one thing - a back-up utility that came with an external hard drive I got for Christmas a few years ago. I do want to remove it since I've NEVER used that back-up function. I simply copy and paste the things I want to back-up onto the external.

However, since that has been running upon startup for a couple of years I doubt that's the problem.

I haven't checked the LaunchAgents or LaunchDaemons yet. I'll do that when I get home.

Thanks!

And that utility no doubt is Windows friendly only? Just remove it by highlighting and hitting the little (-) button and see if that helps.

harryb2448 said:

And that utility no doubt is Windows friendly only? Just remove it by highlighting and hitting the little (-) button and see if that helps.

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No...it works with my mac and I did use it once (the very first time I plugged in my external HD)...but I realized I didn't need it.

Removing it won't be a problem...it's just that I didn't find it 'til late last night and didn't think to delete it then. In the past when trying to get rid of it I looked in the applications and searched for it in spotlight...neither of which turned up anything.

chscag said:

Have you checked to see what may be running at start up?

System Preferences, Accounts, Login Items.

MacIntosh HD/Library/StartupItems/

MacIntosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents/

MacIntosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons/

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Thanks...those bottom two I believe are what did it. I trashed something from Adobe, Bombich (Carbon Copy Cleaner), and memeo (Western Digital backup software). I also found a post in another forum that told me all the crazy places I had to go to to get rid of all the "WD Backup Anywhere" files.

Boot time is back to 35 seconds....now if I can find out what's causing the fans to roar at max speed non-stop I'll be set!

Also head into System Preferences - Startup Disk - make sure your OS X partition is selected there. I just did a clone to a new drive and took me 2 weeks to figure out why my boot time was sitting at 45 seconds. This one thing dropped it to 21 seconds. 35 seconds is probably pretty good if that new drive is a 5400 rpm, but definitely worth checking.

bobtomay said:

Also head into System Preferences - Startup Disk - make sure your OS X partition is selected there. I just did a clone to a new drive and took me 2 weeks to figure out why my boot time was sitting at 45 seconds. This one thing dropped it to 21 seconds. 35 seconds is probably pretty good if that new drive is a 5400 rpm, but definitely worth checking.

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Wow...21 seconds is pretty awesome.

I did check the boot disk and the right drive is selected unless I'm missing something. The only options I had were Macintosh HD and Network. I highlighted Mac HD and click the restart button. Unfortunately, it didn't make a difference.

I'll keep browsing around for possible changes to increase speed, but I'm very pleased with a 35 second boot. It was just the 2 minute boot that was killing me.