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Maintain, Manage and Optimize your Hard Drive
Is your computer running slower? Drive Genius 2 is the best disk utility for the Mac platform. Disk defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 2. Optimize your drive with Drive Genius. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!* *Part of the ProCare program offered by Apple Computer
Drive Genius has established itself as THE industry standard disk utility for the Mac platform. The new Drive Genius 2 is built upon the same award-winning foundation of the original Drive Genius. Improvements have been made to speed and overall performance in the new version. One of the most noticeable and eye catching changes is the all-new user interface. Drive Genius 2 makes hard maintenance tasks painless, fast and easy.
Is your computer running slower? Drive Genius 2 is the best disk utility for the Mac platform. Disk defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 2. Optimize your drive with Drive Genius. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!* *Part of the ProCare program offered by Apple Computer
Drive Genius has established itself as THE industry standard disk utility for the Mac platform. The new Drive Genius 2 is built upon the same award-winning foundation of the original Drive Genius. Improvements have been made to speed and overall performance in the new version. One of the most noticeable and eye catching changes is the all-new user interface. Drive Genius 2 makes hard maintenance tasks painless, fast and easy.
What's new in this version:
* Defrag stability improvements for a specific situation involving a clean install of 10.6.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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Defrag quits !!! - Version: 2.2.1, 10/27/2009 05:41PM PST
Moonwatcher
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Hard drive collapse 
- Version: 2.2, 8/22/2009 03:05PM PST
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crispin.bates
Attempting an upgrade to OS 10..5.8 on a G4 Powerbook, software update reported a lack of space. I therefore set Drive Genius to look for unwanted localisations and unneeded universal binaries and cache and temporary files and went to bed. The next morning the drive was dead and proved irrecoverable by Disk Utility and Disk Warrior which could not even see the Partition. I can only presume that DG drove the hard drive into the ground with its scanning. This was not a new machine but the HD failure at this time was too much of coincidence for me. A most unfortunate and expensive outcome from the first attempt at using this costly software. I would not recommend.
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Catastrophic Defrag Fail - Version: 2.2, 8/17/2009 04:56PM PST
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ThirdOption
Paid for upgrade to version 2.2.
Attempted to defrag Leopard partition, failed within five seconds.
This catastrophically damaged the B-Tree, and corrupted the Partition Table. Neither Drive Genius nor Apple's Disk Utility could then see the partition in question. Thus, Drive Genius could not repair what it had broken.
My old version of DiskWarrior was able to find the partition (now labelled only as "Unknown"). It had to recover files by manually scanning the partition and recreating them. The original file structure was lost. The operating system install was ruined, and a reinstall failed. (The hard drive itself is fine, SMART verified, passes all tests. Never an issue with it.)
I was attempting to do maintenance to clean up my system prior to starting a new job. Now I have to reconstruct a relatively complex install of both OSX, utilities and apps, at this most stressful time.
It does not matter how pretty your interface is, if your app can do this much damage.
Terrible, terrible fail. I do not trust Drive Genius.
Attempted to defrag Leopard partition, failed within five seconds.
This catastrophically damaged the B-Tree, and corrupted the Partition Table. Neither Drive Genius nor Apple's Disk Utility could then see the partition in question. Thus, Drive Genius could not repair what it had broken.
My old version of DiskWarrior was able to find the partition (now labelled only as "Unknown"). It had to recover files by manually scanning the partition and recreating them. The original file structure was lost. The operating system install was ruined, and a reinstall failed. (The hard drive itself is fine, SMART verified, passes all tests. Never an issue with it.)
I was attempting to do maintenance to clean up my system prior to starting a new job. Now I have to reconstruct a relatively complex install of both OSX, utilities and apps, at this most stressful time.
It does not matter how pretty your interface is, if your app can do this much damage.
Terrible, terrible fail. I do not trust Drive Genius.
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I don't know if it's because I'm now running Snow Leopard, or this version of DG, but older versions, running on Leopard and Tiger, NEVER happens !! Strange, but luckily so far I have not lost any data. The app just quits "unexpected", but using Disk Utility I can mount the drive.
Any suggestions ??