Last weekend I took my MacBook on an overnight roadtrip. I got back and woke up Sunday to a MacBook that would not boot. I tried repairing the disk with the Snow Leopard install disk. No dice. I also tried diskwarrior. It also failed to restore the disk. So, I booted into Windows 7 using bootcamp and I used MacDrive to read the partition and back up all of my important stuff (just media, not applications or my home folder).
After backing up I reformatted the Snow Leopard partition and reinstalled from scratch. I left the bootcamp Win 7 partition in place. Snow Leopard installed fine. I updated to 10.6.4 and reinstalled all of my applications including iLife '09 and Office. I put all of my stuff (iTunes library, Dropbox, iPhoto library) back in place. System seemed to be running fine.
Now, here's my problem. After reinstalling, sometimes my MacBook takes as long as 13 minutes to boot. It's sporadic; sometimes it takes less than a minute. I installed Onyx and after running maintenance scripts and repairing permissions it boots in about a minute, but if I restart again immediately after it will take much longer. This morning was the longest at almost 13 minutes. Another weird thing: after it boots the menu bar shows all of the icons except for the battery one. The battery one doesn't show up for another 3-4 minutes after boot.
Is my hard-drive failing?
Is there something else wrong?
Thanks for your help.
After backing up I reformatted the Snow Leopard partition and reinstalled from scratch. I left the bootcamp Win 7 partition in place. Snow Leopard installed fine. I updated to 10.6.4 and reinstalled all of my applications including iLife '09 and Office. I put all of my stuff (iTunes library, Dropbox, iPhoto library) back in place. System seemed to be running fine.
Now, here's my problem. After reinstalling, sometimes my MacBook takes as long as 13 minutes to boot. It's sporadic; sometimes it takes less than a minute. I installed Onyx and after running maintenance scripts and repairing permissions it boots in about a minute, but if I restart again immediately after it will take much longer. This morning was the longest at almost 13 minutes. Another weird thing: after it boots the menu bar shows all of the icons except for the battery one. The battery one doesn't show up for another 3-4 minutes after boot.
Is my hard-drive failing?
Is there something else wrong?
Thanks for your help.