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Product Description:
Drive Genius is an OS X utility designed to provide unsurpassed storage management. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, Drive Genius is packed with powerful tools such as a drive optimizer, a comprehensive repair facility for analyzing, repairing and rebuilding volumes, plus excellent testing capabilities with media surface scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity checking. It can be used to initialize drives, create and delete partitions, and erases them securely as per Department of Defenses standard. Drive Genius can also hide partitions and duplicate volumes or drives swiftly. Last but not least, Drive Genius features advanced tools for resizing and moving of volumes without reformatting, and sports a sector editing tool to modify the data on any sector of the drive -- powerful features that will satisfy even the seasoned Mac experts.
What's new in this version:
- Updated internal manual.
- Additional checking before volume duplication.
- New free space shredding feature.
- Attach Disk Image feature allows mounting of disk images while booted from CD.
- New bootable CD support latest machines.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
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| Overall Rating: |   (4.3) |
Features: | (4.7) |
Support: | (3.7) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.3) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.3) |
Price: | (4.3) |
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Featured Reviews
Defrag crashes thanks to gratuitous graphics, trashes disk - Version: 2.2.1, 11/15/2009 03:23PM PST
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whpalmer4
Defrag quits !!! - Version: 2.2.1, 10/27/2009 05:41PM PST
Moonwatcher
This version quits on me while using defrag, happened a few times using different Macs.
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 ??
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 ??
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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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Prosoft staff: don't ask me to contact you -- go flog the engineer that did the buggy disk drive animation, and the marketing weenie who insisted on putting it in the product!