Thanks for the very helpful information. I wanted to try a few things before buying a $99 program to fix the disk. I restored my drive from my Superdooper backup and it doesn't work better when I boot up from the internal hard drive. I used disk utility to erase the drive before the restore. Does this mean that there is something physically wrong with the drive, or does disk utility not totally erase the drive? Perhaps this means a visit to the Apple Store.
Thanks for your help in advance. On 2013-04-26, at 3:35 AM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Jonathan and Rob, > > Alsoft's Disk Warrior can be run from a bootable cloned backup. It's just > that running it from the DVD is not accessible because the system can't load > VoiceOver from the DVD. However, if you've installed a version on your hard > drive (either from the DVD or, more commonly, from the download) and have > made a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! onto another > drive, you should be able to run this application without problems. Since you > won't be able to run these diagnoses on your MacBook hard drive, you attach a > cloned hard drive, hold down the option key when your press the power on, and > then after giving your system 20 or 30 seconds to start the boot, press > either left or right arrow and then return. You want to have a version of > Disk Warrior on your bootable clone, too, and then run the program from > there. > > Apple Genius bars used to keep Disk Warrior on a separate boot drive to run > on suspect systems. I think that most diagnostic programs like Drive Genius > and Disk Warrior that are run from the DVD won't be accessible, but if > they're installed on your hard drive and are available on a bootable clone, > they can be run with VoiceOver. (Actually, I'm not sure how much of Drive > Genius is accessible, but I was told that at least some of this program was. > I know that Disk Warrior has been usable with VoiceOver, but I haven't had to > do this in a few years.) > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On 25 Apr 2013, at 16:44, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > >> This can sometimes occur with a bad disk partition that is being read from. >> If this is the case, disk utility will probably not catch it,but disk >> warrior (which I don't believe is accessible) will. Installing the OS onto >> an erased hard disk partition did wonders for my system performance. But if >> you can grab one of the more advanced disk utilities like the above >> mentioned Warrior and have somebody sighted with you, you might be able to >> resolve without re-installin >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> >> On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Rob Bender wrote: >> >>> Hello. When I boot from My Mac Book HD, it takes almost 10 minutes to get >>> to the log in screen and the log in is very slow after entering my >>> password. I have a Superdooper backup which I used to restart the system, >>> and everything works as it should. I repaired the disc and permissions on >>> the Macbook HD and it still takes the same time to restart. I haven't >>> found anything strange in the login items either. >>> I also have several time machine backups. >>> >>> I haven't restored from a time machine backup yet, because I am afraid that >>> I will still have the same problems afterwards. I have newer files on the >>> MacBook HD that I want to back up before restoring from the Superdooper >>> backup which appears to work well and do not want to corrupt the backup. >>> There is probably something I am missing, but want to check before taking >>> all the time to try various options. >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your help. >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
