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Mike Litoris

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May 5, 2010
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I installed windows 7 on my i5 MBP via Bootcamp two days ago. Before I did that everything was running great in Mac Os x.
But from the moment I had Windows 7 installed, Mac Os X became almost unusable. It crashes ALL THE TIME.

Just some examples that happened just now:
I use two programs at the same time --> both programs crash
Mail is downloading a new email while I'm using safari --> safari crashes
I try to send a file to someone in Adium --> Adium crashes + Finder crashes

By crashing I mean that the multicolored spinningwheel appears for a long time. So they dont exactly crash but it takes like 3 minutes until I can use them again so that its easier to just restart the program.

In the last two days I also had to restart the whole computer at least 4 times because nothing was working anymore.

At the time the spinningwheel apears cpu usage is always way below 100% and theres also always a lot of free ram available. So I really don't understand why this is happening.


Have you guys got any ideas what could be the problem and how to fix it (if possible without reinstalling mac os).

Could something have gone wrong during partitioning the hdd?
Oh, and I didn't install any windows7 drivers yet since I haven't got my mac os cd with me, but I suppose this cannot cause these problems!?

Thanks for your help and sorry for my poor english ;)
 
Open disk utilities under OS X, click on your OS X disk/volume, and click "repair disk permissions". This should help (and likely solve) your problem.
 
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Could something have gone wrong during partitioning the hdd?

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That would be my guess. Your experience is way worse than mine, but even I decided to remove Windows 7 completely because when I installed it in bootcamp my computer started taking 2-4 minutes to boot up (in either OS) and at least 5 minutes to shut down. Everything started running much slower on both systems and continuously got worse.

Luckily I don't need Windows. But if I did I think I would install it via Parallels next time.
 
Open disk utilities under OS X, click on your OS X disk/volume, and click "repair disk permissions". This should help (and likely solve) your problem.

Thanks a lot, diablo!
This did help a lot. I'll now have to wait and see if it solved the problem completely..
 
That's why I run Win 7 from a VM on an external HDD, windows messes everything...

Lol, windows can't even read the OSX partition. It's Apple's implementation of bootcamp that screws things up. Good try though.

Repairing permissions should fix these sort of lag issues.
 
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