Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
MacBook Pro takes 15 minutes to boot up
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1521395" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Depends on whether that local retailer handles warranty issues or not.</p><p>If they are an authorized Apple reseller, would think they do.</p><p>You could also call Apple.</p><p></p><p>What you are describing is fairly typical of a dieing hard drive.</p><p></p><p>Would recommend making a backup - now - if you haven't already done so.</p><p></p><p>The other option would be to forgo using the warranty and replacing the drive yourself.</p><p>(I would do this and it "shouldn't" affect your warranty on anything other than the drive - but, if you are concerned about the warranty, take it to Apple.)</p><p></p><p>You could boot to the recovery partition (holding command and R while you boot) - this does take several minutes - open up Disk Utility and do a Verify/Repair of the drive. NOTE: This could repair the drive and make it operational for a time (personally, I never trust a drive once it has any issue) - it may tell you the drive is not repairable, in which case you'll know for sure the problem is the drive - in somewhat rare occasions, you may not be able to reboot into OS X at all after this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1521395, member: 24160"] Depends on whether that local retailer handles warranty issues or not. If they are an authorized Apple reseller, would think they do. You could also call Apple. What you are describing is fairly typical of a dieing hard drive. Would recommend making a backup - now - if you haven't already done so. The other option would be to forgo using the warranty and replacing the drive yourself. (I would do this and it "shouldn't" affect your warranty on anything other than the drive - but, if you are concerned about the warranty, take it to Apple.) You could boot to the recovery partition (holding command and R while you boot) - this does take several minutes - open up Disk Utility and do a Verify/Repair of the drive. NOTE: This could repair the drive and make it operational for a time (personally, I never trust a drive once it has any issue) - it may tell you the drive is not repairable, in which case you'll know for sure the problem is the drive - in somewhat rare occasions, you may not be able to reboot into OS X at all after this. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
MacBook Pro takes 15 minutes to boot up
Top