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Hi mac-help,
I just bought a macbook pro 3 days ago, and the thing is lightning fast. But yesterday i installed Windows 7 with boot camp, and then i installed parallels and used the same partition of windows to access in parallels. Still no problem so far, until i started using parallels, the virtual machine crashes when trying to open bs player, and the impatient person i am, i start clicking buttons like there is no tomorrow. Resulting in OS X crashing as well. At this point my patience has run out, so i kill the laptop by holding the on/off switch. And the thing shuts down. But the next bootup takes, and i am not joking, 30 minutes. Booting windows 7 from the partition also takes around 10 minutes to boot all of the sudden. Oh well i think, i'll just erase everything on the harddrive, and make a new partition with the OS X cd.. The problem is now, that whenever i change something on the harddisc, like installing a program, the bootup takes 30 minutes again. The only thing i can do to change this is boot from the OS X cd and repair the access and repair the drive it self. Then bootup takes around 40 seconds. Has anyone got the answer to this insane problem? Is my hdd completely fried? The thing is 4 days old, and i really dont want to send it in to apple, because i just got the thing and i need it bad for school. I know this is half a letter, sorry.
- Thomsen1989
I just bought a macbook pro 3 days ago, and the thing is lightning fast. But yesterday i installed Windows 7 with boot camp, and then i installed parallels and used the same partition of windows to access in parallels. Still no problem so far, until i started using parallels, the virtual machine crashes when trying to open bs player, and the impatient person i am, i start clicking buttons like there is no tomorrow. Resulting in OS X crashing as well. At this point my patience has run out, so i kill the laptop by holding the on/off switch. And the thing shuts down. But the next bootup takes, and i am not joking, 30 minutes. Booting windows 7 from the partition also takes around 10 minutes to boot all of the sudden. Oh well i think, i'll just erase everything on the harddrive, and make a new partition with the OS X cd.. The problem is now, that whenever i change something on the harddisc, like installing a program, the bootup takes 30 minutes again. The only thing i can do to change this is boot from the OS X cd and repair the access and repair the drive it self. Then bootup takes around 40 seconds. Has anyone got the answer to this insane problem? Is my hdd completely fried? The thing is 4 days old, and i really dont want to send it in to apple, because i just got the thing and i need it bad for school. I know this is half a letter, sorry.
- Thomsen1989