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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1590545" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>You're troubleshooting the wrong thing if it's literally taking 5 minutes to boot up - the top 2 reasons:</p><p></p><p>A) your drive is too full - how much used and free space is there?</p><p>B) the hard drive is dying - no amount of troubleshooting is going to take care of it - need a new drive</p><p></p><p>I would suggest you backup the drive <strong>NOW</strong> if you don't already have it backed up.</p><p></p><p>If you have over 20% free space on the drive...</p><p>After you back up the drive</p><p>Boot to the recovery partition (boot while holding down the Command key and the R key)</p><p>Go to Disk Utility - select the drive on the left - then try a Verify Drive - if it comes back with any errors then try the Repair Drive (not a permissions repair).</p><p></p><p>edit:</p><p>Do you have an external bootable clone - if you boot to that do you still have the same problems?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1590545, member: 24160"] You're troubleshooting the wrong thing if it's literally taking 5 minutes to boot up - the top 2 reasons: A) your drive is too full - how much used and free space is there? B) the hard drive is dying - no amount of troubleshooting is going to take care of it - need a new drive I would suggest you backup the drive [B]NOW[/B] if you don't already have it backed up. If you have over 20% free space on the drive... After you back up the drive Boot to the recovery partition (boot while holding down the Command key and the R key) Go to Disk Utility - select the drive on the left - then try a Verify Drive - if it comes back with any errors then try the Repair Drive (not a permissions repair). edit: Do you have an external bootable clone - if you boot to that do you still have the same problems? [/QUOTE]
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