Help! Mac boot problem!

When my Mac boots, a little bar appears below the apple logo. Then, the bar fills up very slowly. I know the bar isn't the progress of my Mac booting, because after the bar fills up and disappears, the spinning wheel goes on for like another 20 seconds. the Mac actually boots, and there is nothing wrong, but because of the little bar that shows up, my Mac takes 15 minutes to boot, and its a waste of battery and time. Please help me get out of this problem. Thanks!

That means the directory of the boot volume is damaged and a repair is being attempted. If it happens repeatedly, you should assume that there's a hardware fault in the drive, the internal cable, or the logic board. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine tested. Back up all data before you go.

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I am french, my english is not very well, i am sorry !
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Help me !
Virginie

Hi Marmotte, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
This is a common issue and usually easily solved.See this FAQ on troubleshooting Help Viewer
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Hi Mac turning on problems, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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