Existing users, 
I have a problem with the directory on a drive, I've had it for a few months now. The data on it is important to me, but not time-sensitive, so I've been waiting for an intel drive repair program to come along. I've tested TTP - which actually crashes when it encounters my drive - and now Drive Genius.
To cut a long story short, it fails to repair the directory problem. It fails in such a way, in fact, to make me believe it's not doing anything but running fsck.
I question whether this program does anything that Disk Utility doesn't do. It certain didn't fix my problem, and from the look of it is not a proper custom tool like TTP or DiskWarrior. Guess I'll be waiting for the intel version of DW.
Until then, try this program at your own risk - I can't see how it is any different from Disk Utility. Note the demo version does not allow proper testing. That does not inspire confidence. Ineffectual waste of money? For me yes. For you, probably. Not recommended.
Drive Genius
Storage management: maintain, manage, optimize.
Version: 2.2.1
Could not repair my drive
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Saichology Sunday, October 29 2006 @ 01:42 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Could not repair my drive - petersconsult
Well, I don't know about all that...The original complaint, as i understand it, is that, despite all the bravado this app displays, Drive Genius really just runs fsck to repair disks, and that's pretty lame! (especially if they're charging $299 for IT people!!!)
in the original complaint, DW stands for Disk Warrior, the very best directory repair app out there, ever.
You couldn't be more wrong when you say that most failures on a HD are hardware failures! I have been a Mac tech for nearly 12 years, and 99.999% of HD problems were due to corrupt directories. Once repaired, those drives went on living full, happy lives.
There is a myth that Macs running OS X don't get corrupt directories. That's unfortunately wrong. It happens, a lot. It may be benign most of the time, but left unchecked, it can put a serious damper on your Mac experience.
The fact that there is nothing better right now than fsck for Intel Macs is a sin.
Just my 2 cents..
Peter
Thursday, November 23 2006 @ 12:27 AM PST
Could not repair my drive - Ptrix
You kno, ther does come a point in a hard drive's life when it will just stop working, and from the sound of it, your hard drive has fallen into that unfortunate category. i hope you kept backups. Drive failure is most commonly a hardare issue, and in such a case, there really isn't too much that a software product can do about the hardware beyond alerting you to the possibility of a hard drive fault.it's a shame that you ranked Drive Genius so poorly because of a situation that existed before you even installed and used it, and that your HD had gotten to such a state before you decided to act on it with tools beyond the built-in offerings that Apple provided, but those cannot be attributed to Drive Genius', and as i said, not all hard drives last forever.
i DO hope that the drive you replace it with, (if you have opted to do that), will last much longer than your last one did.
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Saturday, November 11 2006 @ 09:23 AM PST