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Mac booting up/saving data REAL slow - please help!
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1476553" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>First - disregard the time it initially says it's going to take to create a backup. That info, when attempting a 240 GB backup is useless in determining anything related to whether your hard drive is going kaput. There is no way to determine whether the time is related to the type of files being moved, the speed of your connection, the read speed of your internal, the write speed of your external and/or any combination of all the above.</p><p></p><p>You will be able to reinstall ML - either by booting to the recovery partition or by re-downloading ML and creating a USB install disk. In your situation, because it seems that you "may" have a failing hard drive, it would be best to create a ML install disk on USB - <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/17/make-bootable-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-usb-install-drive/" target="_blank">how to</a>.</p><p></p><p>If your issue is a software one, the clean install will take care of it. If it is a hard drive on the way out, then a replacement hard drive will solve it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1476553, member: 24160"] First - disregard the time it initially says it's going to take to create a backup. That info, when attempting a 240 GB backup is useless in determining anything related to whether your hard drive is going kaput. There is no way to determine whether the time is related to the type of files being moved, the speed of your connection, the read speed of your internal, the write speed of your external and/or any combination of all the above. You will be able to reinstall ML - either by booting to the recovery partition or by re-downloading ML and creating a USB install disk. In your situation, because it seems that you "may" have a failing hard drive, it would be best to create a ML install disk on USB - [URL="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/17/make-bootable-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-usb-install-drive/"]how to[/URL]. If your issue is a software one, the clean install will take care of it. If it is a hard drive on the way out, then a replacement hard drive will solve it. [/QUOTE]
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