![]() I held down the power button until it shutdown and the powered it back up holding option. I restarted the computer and held down CMD+R and nothing happened, it just stayed on the white screen.I went to Disk Utility and tried Verifying the Disk and it gave me an error saying that it could not be verified and that I would need to open it up in Recovery Mode.I did some googling and it seemed like I needed to run First Aid on the SSD.I looked in the Activity Monitor and I kept getting CrashReports that were taking up 75% of the system. Photoshop finally opened but Mozilla did not. When I finally logged in I opened up Photoshop and Firefox and they both just bounced on the task bar for about 2 minutes.Next I reset the NVRAM 3x and this made a significant improvement.This made the boot time a little bit faster, maybe 2 minutes but it still wasn't acceptable. Next I shutdown the computer and restarted the SMC.I did this and restarted but the boot time was the same. I looked at some forums and saw that I should make my SSD my primary boot drive.I turned on the iMac yesterday and the Startup was VERY SLOW, like 5 minutes.I haven't used the iMac in about a month as I have a Macbook Pro from work that I use primarily. ![]() 128GB Samsung SSD installed in place of Optical Drive.Late 2009 27" iMac Intel Core Duo 3.06ghz. ![]() I get a chime then the Apple logo appears, then the progress bar gets to about halfway, then it shuts down.
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