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Drive Genius 2.2 (Mac OS X)

Catastrophic Defrag Fail  

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. [alert admin]

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Monday, August 17 2009 @ 04:56 PM PDT

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