Hard Drive Replaced, MacBook now super slow

[sebisworld]

Hello,
my dad owns a 13 inch MacBook (2006) and his hard drive just died. I ordered a new one for him (Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B 160GB, SATA II) and sent him instructions on how to replace the HD. I don't live close to him, otherwise I would have done it myself. He has since replaced the drive, assured me that he didn't change any jumpers, and restored his Mac from Time Machine. The MacBook now needs 15 full minutes until he can enter his password, and everything else seems to have slowed down as well. Do you guys have any ideas on what could have gone wrong?

Thanks!

Sebastian

 

[Cave Man]

So, to be clear, he did a clean install after swapping out the drive, then use MA to move things over? Did he repair permissions of the old drive before removing it?

 

[sebisworld]

No, he restored the drive from a Time Machine backup, without doing an install first.

 

[Cave Man]

Is there a reason not to do a clone using Carbon Copy Cloner? This is what I've always done when upgrading a hard drive (repair permissions, then CCC).

 

[AlphaDogg]

Is there a reason not to do a clone using Carbon Copy Cloner? This is what I've always done when upgrading a hard drive (repair permissions, then CCC).

Yes. His original hard drive died. You cannot clone a time machine drive to an internal drive.

 

[Cave Man]

Doh! I missed that. I'd do a clean install of the OS from the Installer DVD then do Migration Assistant.

 

[Wicked1]

Could be two factors, the 2006 doesn't support Sata II so it defaults to Sata I, also the fact that the drive is a 500GB 5400RPM drive in itself it is not fast.

I bought a WD 500GB Scorpio Blue 5400 RPM 16MB Cache and it is much slower then my Hitachi 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache, a huge diff, although I have a uMB 2009 which does support Sata II or 3.0GB speeds.