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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:
This new release adds preventive measures to help avoid an issue with Leopard (10.5.x) and Serial-ATA based drives (typically, your internal drive(s). Apple is aware of the problem and is working on a fix. The workaround is to boot from the Drive Genius 2 DVD. If you are trying to repartition, rebuild, repair or defrag a Serial-ATA drive, you must either be booted from the Drive Genius 2 DVD or be running Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger). USB and Firewire-based drives are not affected by this current issue.
If you want to use Drive Genius 2 to defrag/repartition/etc your internal drive(s), then just boot from the Drive Genius 2 DVD-- It's that easy..
If you want to use Drive Genius 2 to defrag/repartition/etc any external USB or FireWire drive, you can just run Drive Genius 2 as an application (no need to boot from the DVD)...
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
Additional Requirements:
- DVD drive
- Mac OS 10.4.9 or newer
- User interface animations require Quartz Extreme support (G4 or newer)
- 256mb RAM
- 1.0GHz processor minimum
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.4) |
Features: | (3.5) |
Support: | (3.4) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.6) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.3) |
Price: | (2.9) |
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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
Used DG 2.2.1 yesterday to try to defragment a disk under Snow Leopard so Boot Camp could partition it for a Windows installation. The defragment option ran for about 3 minutes before crashing in the code that draws the ridiculously gratuitous graphics of the spinning disk, flying 1's and 0's, and so on. Naturally, being interrupted in the process of shuffling data around didn't lead to a happy result. Fortunately I wasn't willing to run this program without a complete backup, so I was able to recover the disk. I've never had any defragment issues with Drive Genius 1.5.3 (no gratuitous graphics) despite frequent use. Felt like an idiot for telling someone I had a great program that would let us skip the backup/restore method of disk defragmentation! I'll be sure to turn off the animation next time, if there is a next time.
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!
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!
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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