Long pause at startup

[soccerjoe5]

i upgraded my MBP's HDD.

there's a pause during startup though, about 5-10 seconds, before the apple logo shows up. afterwards it seems fine. no performance issues or anything.

it's just that long pause before the apple logo shows up with a gray screen.

any idea why this happens?

 

[xUKHCx]

Is your drive partitioned for bootcamp? If so this is known to introduce a small delay into the boot time.

You could try going into System Preferences and actively selecting your harddrive as the boot partition or reseting your PRAM (cmd+opt+p+r) on boot.

 

[soccerjoe5]

Is your drive partitioned for bootcamp? If so this is known to introduce a small delay into the boot time.

You could try going into System Preferences and actively selecting your harddrive as the boot partition or reseting your PRAM (cmd+opt+p+r) on boot.

thanks for the reply!

nope it's not partitioned for bootcamp. it IS a clone of the older hard drive though, if that matters. i wonder if reformatting and reinstalling leopard will cure this

i looked at "startup disk" in my system preferences and the only option shown is "network startup" that has an icon with a question mark

i can try that reseting PRAM, it won't have any side effects?