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<blockquote data-quote="Queensgate555" data-source="post: 1505280" data-attributes="member: 293407"><p>All good information, thanks to all sources.....</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now for a concern, not a problem; I hit a speed bump in the learning curve.</p><p></p><p>"...<em><u><span style="color: Red">boot from the clone at least once to make sure things appear OK. I have had one clone not work properly</span></u></em>...."</p><p></p><p>When I booted the clone the first time, it was a "Hold your breath moment" - Compared to the old system HD, the computer took 4-5 times as long to boot up; almost as if the computer didn't "recognize" the new HD. It took forever for the "Bong" and another forever for the Apple Logo to (spinning circle) load. Upon use, just about everything I tried was sluggish with the "Wait" indicator spinning.</p><p></p><p>After a while of using it, I decided to "Verify" the integrity of the disc which, was pronounced "OKAY" by the computer.</p><p></p><p>At lunch today, I took the computer back to my associate (from whom I received it) and asked him to "Benchmark" it; if anyone was familiar with the running of this PC it was him. He said, "Boy, it sure is loading up slow....."</p><p></p><p>He went through and verified and repaired some "permissions" and told me to take it home and run it, his thoughts were that the new HD had to be "indexed". And, he did some kind of multi-fingered shortcut that involved starting the PC and holding down keys down. He also used a long press on the on switch; I was not clear on the explanation between the momentary push and the long activation of the power switch.</p><p></p><p>So, would / should the data pointers and permissions change with a new / cloned HD; is this normal? MBP is running ok (LOWER CASE!) but, it seemed to run better with the other HD in it.</p><p></p><p>BTW, I checked the specs on the new and old Hard Drives and, the spindle speed (5400 RPMs), the seek and latency times are listed as the same. Old HD is a Fujitsu MHW2120BH and the new HD is a Western Digital WDBABC3200ANC.</p><p></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>From: My MBP 5,4 (mid 2009)</p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Queensgate555, post: 1505280, member: 293407"] All good information, thanks to all sources..... Now for a concern, not a problem; I hit a speed bump in the learning curve. "...[I][U][COLOR="Red"]boot from the clone at least once to make sure things appear OK. I have had one clone not work properly[/COLOR][/U][/I]...." When I booted the clone the first time, it was a "Hold your breath moment" - Compared to the old system HD, the computer took 4-5 times as long to boot up; almost as if the computer didn't "recognize" the new HD. It took forever for the "Bong" and another forever for the Apple Logo to (spinning circle) load. Upon use, just about everything I tried was sluggish with the "Wait" indicator spinning. After a while of using it, I decided to "Verify" the integrity of the disc which, was pronounced "OKAY" by the computer. At lunch today, I took the computer back to my associate (from whom I received it) and asked him to "Benchmark" it; if anyone was familiar with the running of this PC it was him. He said, "Boy, it sure is loading up slow....." He went through and verified and repaired some "permissions" and told me to take it home and run it, his thoughts were that the new HD had to be "indexed". And, he did some kind of multi-fingered shortcut that involved starting the PC and holding down keys down. He also used a long press on the on switch; I was not clear on the explanation between the momentary push and the long activation of the power switch. So, would / should the data pointers and permissions change with a new / cloned HD; is this normal? MBP is running ok (LOWER CASE!) but, it seemed to run better with the other HD in it. BTW, I checked the specs on the new and old Hard Drives and, the spindle speed (5400 RPMs), the seek and latency times are listed as the same. Old HD is a Fujitsu MHW2120BH and the new HD is a Western Digital WDBABC3200ANC. . From: My MBP 5,4 (mid 2009) . [/QUOTE]
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