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MattMJB0188

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I received my first SSD yesterday and its great but I reinstalled Snow Leopard and then wanted to create the Windows 7 partition. However once Windows 7 installs and everything is done my boot time for OS X goes from about 15 seconds to 35 seconds? I then deleted the partition and boot time was back to normal again. This time I allocated 40gb for Windows 7 instead of 20gb. Same problem was there again. I then deleted the partition again but this time my boot time was stil very long for an SSD.

Reinstalled Snow Leopard but didn't format and everything is fine. I would love to use boot camp but I think its ridiculous boot times take 35 seconds on an SSD. My 7200 rpm hard drive was exactly 36 seconds. I don't want to sound like I'm compiling because I'm not I just don't understand because something obviously is getting messed up with the Windows 7 partition. I did try all of these things when I had the Windows 7 partition both times:

*Repair File Permissions via Disk Utility
*Clean out the boot files with Onyx
*Made sure OS X is the startup disk.
*Reset Pram by holding Opt, CMD, P & R
*Rebooted about 15 times ):

Any advice greatly appreciated. :)
 
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