Prosoft Drive Genius (Mac) |  | From: Global Marketing Partners
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $29.90
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Seller: Genuine Adapters
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 5548
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS X
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 23100
Model: 23100
UPC: 794038231009
EAN: 0794038231009
ASIN: B0007MF038
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Partition - Organize data more efficiently | | • | Defragment - Speed up your OS X volumes | | • | Initialize - High level OS X formatting | | • | Shred - Securely remove all traces of data | | • | Preventative Maintenance -Find problems before they happen |
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Product Description
Drive Genius provides unsurpassed hard drive management. It includes essential maintenance tools, effective optimization tools and powerful management tools. Use its simple interface, drive optimizer & comprehensive repair facility will satisfy even the seasoned Mac experts. You can also handle scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity checking -- and analyze, repair and rebuild volumes easily. Drive Genius provides all the tools needed to take control of your hard drive, and your digital life. Use the SMART diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures Surface Scan verifies hard drive reliability with a complete suite of non-destructive tests Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions Get in-depth reports of specifications and space use of all devices and OS X volumes
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 15
 A Few Runs Short of a Grand Slam May 14, 2009
H. Arnett (Missouri Frontier, USA)
After reading other reviews, I was all set for Prosoft Drive Genius (PDG)to revolutionize the operating efficiency of my eMac. I had to call tech support just to learn how to begin using PDG. The help function is nothing more than a PDF file; "PDF" apparently means Pretty Darn Frustrating. The tech support rep was friendly and helpful, though, and I soon had PDG operating. The Repair function did not detect any problems. It took the Defragment a few hours to run. After the cleanup, I re-started the computer, anticipating a return of swift operating speeds and stability. Safari crashed immediately and the increase in speed was negligible.
In fairness, there may be other problems beyond the purview of PDG or maybe I just didn't figure out what function I needed to activate. At any rate, the software came up a bit short of my expectations.
 Works for Me. August 23, 2008
Kirk S. Tirakian (Metro Detroit Michigan)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Drive Genius 1.5.3 works for me just fine on my MacBook running Mac OS X 10.4.11.
Can't really add much to it than that. It does not seem to fix permission issues. I had to do an archive and install as well to get rid of permissions that would repair themselves and then get reversed.
I run it from the backup drive or from the disk.
 Garbage April 23, 2008
Deimos (Alberta)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Faulty, misleading expencive up supported trash. Charges for updates, doesen't work or do anything only mess up your mard drive, disk utility has the same features but it actually works. If you defrag your mac drive using this kiss it goodbye. Now they have drive ididot 2 out don't be a sucker save your money and stay away from this lousey excuse of a program.
Killed my drive April 25, 2007
ovloV (Los Angeles, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This product worked for me for a while with no problem, and seemed like a great utility. Then one day a drive with 40 gigs of movie files was running a little slow. After "verifying" and "repairing" and "rebuilding" the drive I clicked on defragment. The dialog comes up warning to backup data because loss of power during defragmenting could cause loss of data. As soon as I clicked OK, the program quit unexpectedly rendering the drive inaccessable and all data lost! I wish I had used DiskWarrior for the defrag, because it doesn't rewrite directory data until a few seconds at the very end the process. Only use this as a last resort. No other utility could rescue my drive. I can't even imagine if this had happened to my main startup drive with all my applications and pictures.
Do Not Defragment iMac Intel Core Duo with this product February 13, 2007
webdesigngirl (boston)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It killed my harddrive and the only way to restart was to erase with entire computer with the OSX install disk. I was able to plug in a laptop so that the Intel iMac acted as a firewire drive and grab back a few essentials but I lost everything on my desktop and my emails.
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