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I just installed bootcamp on my 2010 13" MBP, running 10.6.

However, after doing the bootcamp, I have extremely slow boot for my OS X partition, and when I verified the disk in Disk Utility (from a superduper backup clone), it told me that the Mac partition could not be repaired.

I can still boot, it is just VERY slow. Windows boots up nice and fast.

Several potentially relevant details:

  • prior to going bootcamp, I migrated to SSD (by ditching the optical drive), here's my walkthrough. (yes, I did have to put the optical disk back in to install XP, quite annoying).
  • Also, one step I didn't take was when I bootcamped, I just rebooted and installed XP, instead of having bootcamp initiate the install... is this bad?
  • finally, I did have rEFIt installed prior to both the SSD switch and bootcamp, is this a cause of potential issues? (not attached to it in any way).

Any assistance or avenues for investigation would be very helpful!

Chealion
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r00fus
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Anything interesting in /var/log/system.log or /var/log/kernel.log from when the slowness happens? Look especially for undefined or generic disk I/O errors.

What exactly did it say was the problem it found that it could not repair?

Update:
From the fsck log messages you posted, I think it's time to either invest in Disk Warrior or another advanced HFS+ repair utility, or copy anything you need from the problem volume, erase it, and restore from your backup.

If you go the restore-from backup route, and you back is a disk image, be careful how you do it. Some kinds of restores from disk images can do block-copies for speed, but depending on when this filesystem data structure corruption was introduced, your disk image might have that same corruption, and a block-based restore might restore the same corrupt filesystem data structures onto your disk. You want to opt for a restore method that does more of a file-by-file copy rather than block writes. Come to think of it, if you never did a "Scan Image for Restore..." in Disk Utility, or the equivalent command-line operation in hdiutil or a third-party utility, then you probably can't do a block-copy restore of that disk image anyway, so no worries there.

Spiff
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