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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:
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).
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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| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
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Price: | (3.5) |
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OMG, what an AWFUL GUI! - Version: 2.0.3, 7/12/2008 08:17PM PST
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Central Scrutinizer--2008
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Reluctantly recommending the product; unequivocally condemning its tech support - Version: 2.0.3, 7/12/2008 11:42AM PST
PiotrGM
Drive Genius (I give it three stars) is much, much less useful and elegant that the exemplary DiskWarrior, and yet it is better than the much clumsier TechTool Pro. However, unlike some other commentators on this forum, I have had abysmal experience with ProSoft's technical support (I give it one star). My previous description of that experience was removed (this had never happened to me before), so I warn every one: ProSoft has really long hands. However, I must admit my experience was so bad I did not mince words in that comment. I still cannot come to terms with the - presumably accidental (let's give them the benefit of the doubt) - complete lack of professionalism on part of the ProSoft's representative, who did not seem to understand the simplest sentences written in English (I am not a native speaker, however I hold a Ph.D. in literature from one of the better Canadian universities, and have been computing in North America for twenty years). One advice: when you deal with their tech support, make sure you do it as infrequently as possible - and use very short, simple and intelligible sentences. Perhaps mine were too long.
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Great for maintenance and in emergencies! - Version: 2.0.3, 7/10/2008 10:32AM PST
steve139--2008
As someone who reluctantly switched from Mac 9.2.2 to OS10, I think the thing I missed most was having a decent disc utility either to check my drives out when I had a while to do maintenance or to get things working properly when something nasty arose. In fact I'd go so far as so say that finding Drive Genius gave me the confidence to know that I could put stuff right in OS10 and so I haven't booted up my old Mac in 9.2.2 for some time now, I almost feel a little unfaithful.
Anyone that used 9.2.2 for some years probably had a good idea of what was amiss when bad stuff started happening, and the old system allowed you to go in, have a look and be a lot more hands on than OS10 does now. So I'm very happy that I have a tool that I have great confidence in for putting right the bad stuff, and a great selection of tools for defrag, drive backup and all that, plus a few that I hope I never have to use but make me comfortable knowing they're there.
And I have to say that the support I received from Prosoft Engineering is also excellent. They reply very quickly in my experience, and don't make you feel stupid for asking what might be to them, stupid questions. It's good to find a product that does just what it says it does.
Anyone that used 9.2.2 for some years probably had a good idea of what was amiss when bad stuff started happening, and the old system allowed you to go in, have a look and be a lot more hands on than OS10 does now. So I'm very happy that I have a tool that I have great confidence in for putting right the bad stuff, and a great selection of tools for defrag, drive backup and all that, plus a few that I hope I never have to use but make me comfortable knowing they're there.
And I have to say that the support I received from Prosoft Engineering is also excellent. They reply very quickly in my experience, and don't make you feel stupid for asking what might be to them, stupid questions. It's good to find a product that does just what it says it does.
But the real surprise came when I went to shut off this miserable eye candy in the preferences. That's right, there is no sensible alternative to Drive Genius's asinine utility chooser. It must have taken a genius to come up with something that sucks so bad.
I will not be upgrading to version 2 until the GUI is fixed.