Slow Start-up after installing new hard drive

Sorry you're not getting any responses. I guess sometimes a new thread can fall through the cracks.

I'm not much help on this one but I wanted to chime in because I'm having the same problem. I just put a brand new Hitachi Travelstar 7k500 7200 16gb hard drive in my macbook pro and, although everything seems to be running well (and the drive is super quiet), my start up time is considerably slower.

I cloned my original drive to the new drive using Carbon Copy Cloner and everything seems to be identical. So, I'm a bit confused as to why the start up is so much much slower.

I should add, there is one more variable for me. I upgraded my ram from 2 to 4gb (OWC modules) at the same time I replaced the drive. However, the ram is fully recognized and programs seem to be loading and running at least as quickly as before.

If I find anything out I'll check back in.

-Steve

Open Activity Monitor and see if anything is chewing CPU.

Have you checked System Profiler to see if all 4Gb of RAM are being recognized?

Adam

I am merely mentioning something to narrow down the issue.

Show respect to others that are trying to help you or you may find yourself without.

Now... have you tried cloning the old HDD to the new?

Adam

Crumm, Steven,

I have just installed a Western Digital Scorpio Black 7200RPM 320GB hard drive and I am having the same problem. When I switch on my Macbook Pro it hear the startup chime but then the apple logo does not appear for quite a long time. Once it appears it then boots up in about the same amount of time it used to take. This suggests to me it is carrying out some task it does not need to.

I also cloned my old hard drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, so I have concerns that this is some oddity with the combination of some Western Digital hard drives and Carbon Copy Cloner. Given the how recent all these posts are it could be something to do with the recent build of Carbon Copy Cloner, I presume you all downloaded the free version from the web?

If I find anything else out I will write back, if you could too that would be great.

Oops, I just realised I didn't user Carbon Copy Cloner, but Super Duper, my mistake.

This means that 3 backup programs are having the same problem so we can rule those out, looks like it might be something to do with Western Digital drives.

I purchased mine a couple of weeks back, how about you?

Mike,

Although I did use CCC, my new drive is a Hitachi 7200RPM 500GB 16MB drive. The drive itself seems to fly.

I did notice that zapping the PRam helped a bit but then it seemed to slow down a little a day later. Weird.

All bets are off for me now because I just upgraded to Leopard from Tiger. Man, what a big pain in the #$@! that was. I didn't know that because my Mac is Intel that I needed to choose "GUID Partition Scheme" when I formatted my new drive. Anyway, it was a pain to reformat it but it's up and running now. And start up is still a bit slower...