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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 Defense's 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.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0.3:

If you currently own Drive Genius 2, you qualify for a free DVD of this new version. Details may be found at www.prosoftengineering.com

  • All drive operations are re-enabled on systems running OS X 10.5.3 or later.
  • New OS X 10.5.3 (Leopard) based boot DVD.
  • Increased Shred performance.
  • Bug Fix: Spurious "HFS volume could not be created" warning after shredding a disk listed in the "Devices" tab.
  • Bug Fix: Never ending unmount warnings in Sector Edit if the volume failed to unmount.
  • Bug Fix: Increased font size of contextual help.
  • Bug Fix: Text for two or more icons in the main menu could be shown at the same time.
  • Bug Fix: Rare crash in Defrag (Intel only).
REQUIREMENTS
DVD drive, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later, User interface animations require Quartz Extreme.
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Developer:Prosoft Engineering
Downloads:74,423
  - Version d/l:2,801
Utilities:System
License:Demo
Date:03 Jun 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$99.00
RATING
***½.
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Drive Genius User Reviews (89 posts)Write A Review
Jul 2 2008

DRADY  I've used v1.5 and earlier w/o problems on earlier versions of Mac OSX.

BUT ... just used 2.0.3 to defrag on 10.5.3 and had my volume damaged such that if fails Verify/Repair.

Reinstall time ... and pray the backup I took just before the defrag will restore cleanly.  (Version 2.0.3)

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Jun 20 2008

DOUG BROWN  I bought Drive Genius 2.0.2 and it would not work with my new Mac Pro dual Quad. I started what turned out to be a long dialog with Prosoft Software via email. They were alway patience with my impatience essentially waiting for Apple to release information they need to make their program work with the Mac Pro. Finally, 2.0.3 was released and they walked me through the process to upgrade my current software and finally get the defragging function to work... and it all works great now. But it was Prosoft's technical support that came through and worked with during this process... always professional, always timely responses...

Thank you Prosoft!

Doug Brown.  (Version 2.0.3)

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Jun 10 2008

JAMESDEMO  Hi Prosoft

I just received my disk from your company. After many years of using the other TTP. I must say that they telling me that you must pay for the latest up date again. Because it’s a few weeks past due, I decided to give your product a try. I must admit when my new disk did not work I was a little skeptical . But today I must say I can’t believe how easy and faster your product works. I did not make a boot up disk but just used it from a new reboot. Congratulations it is a great product. James.  (Version 2.0.3)

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Apr 11 2008
*****

FLASH1296  The current version (2.0.2) is priceless. It is beyond a Five Star production. Its feature set and ease of use are matchless. Along with Disc Warrior4.1, it is the only software utility that I suggest to my Mac consulting clients. NOTE: This is far preferable to TechToolPro, which looks great but has absolutely unreliable hardware tests.

A reviewer below obviously does not know how to properly burn a bootable Mac disc. (He probably tried to burn the disc with the image mounted. That is the most common mistake.  (Version 2.0.2)

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