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TechnoTV - Drive Genius 2
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List Price: $99.00
Our Price: $49.90
Your Save: $ 49.10 ( 50% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: ProSoft Engineering
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: ProSoft Engineering
EAN: 0794038521001
Feature: Disk defrag - optimizes the drive, then combines all the empty free space together into one contiguous block. This in turn improves the overall speed and performance of the drive
Format: CD-ROM
Label: ProSoft Engineering
Manufacturer: ProSoft Engineering
Model: 52100
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: ProSoft Engineering
Release Date: 2008-02-10
Studio: ProSoft Engineering
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Features
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Disk defrag - optimizes the drive, then combines all the empty free space together into one contiguous block. This in turn improves the overall speed and performance of the drive
Directory repair, repartition on-the-fly, device/volume cloning, integrity testing, benchmarking, secure erase and several other tools to help maintain your hard drive
Your hard drive should be defragged every 2 months or so. If you are working with smaller files (Microsoft Office, emails) you should run defrag every 3 to 4 months
OS X only optimizes files under 20MB. It also only optimizes the files not the drive, so even though the smaller files are optimized there can be empty space in between the files themselves. Drive Genius 2 has the ability to optimize the drive, by putting all pieces of the file together
Able to repartition your hard drive 'on-the-fly' (no need to reformat the hard drive) allowing you to add, delete, hide or expand partitions live.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Exonerated! Balancing the Bashing- read on...
Comment: There WERE boot problems with some Intel Mac models running newer Leopard versions when Drive Genius 2 was first released, caused by Apple's footdragging and their delayed release of required startup parameters. However, all other Drive Genius 2 features were and are functional. Prosoft Engineering was head and shoulders above other utility software vendors (who shall remain unnamed) in their response to the fix with the release of v2.0.3. (Don't get me started on the Santa Rosa outfit that always pre-sells its next cure-all version and takes a year to deliver. They are at it again, right now.) Then in September 2008, v2.1 was released with many improvements and the addition of DriveSlim(tm), a clutter finding and eliminating feature. Drive Genius 2.1 is a stable, mature utility that is continually being improved and in nearly all cases, updates at no additional cost to users. Prosoft Engineering is responsive, supportive and comsumer positive. Drive Genius 2.1 is indeed the best product of its type available.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Please Make it Work
Comment: Once they make it work it will be great. Good easy to use interface that looks good. But it doesnt work yet on new macs. Warrior is the only one so far that will work when you download the update online from them, but warrior is soooooo basic. Time will tell
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Summary: Drive Genius 2 Crashed my Intel iMac
Comment: Drive Genius 2 arrived today. I installed it, and used it to check permissions. No problem. I booted from the DG CD, and set it to defrag.
It got to about 35% and signalled "Done." I knew it couldn't be, so I set it again to defrag. It said it couldn't, as the drive is corrupted! Something about an overlap. It now can't mount the boot drive, so the computer won't boot from its hard drive. I booted from the Disk Warrior 4.1 CD, but it was unable to correct the problem. Now I've booted from the TechToolPro 4 CD, but it doesn't look like it's going to work either. Intel iMac 20, OS 10.5 with the latest updates...
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Summary: Don't buy this product
Comment: Total waste of money not to mention screwing up a fairly new Apple iMac computer. Will not run from installed disk or will not boot and run from loaded disk. Save you're money. If you don't buy this product from the manufacturer the support is almost non-existent, so don't save an extra $10 by buying it from Amazon; go to manufacturer!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Works exactly as it should!
Comment: I received this product yesterday and the version shipped was 2.0.3. I used it on my 1-year old MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.5.4. I had no problems running any of the utilities or booting from the disc. It defragged my drive beautifully (I was honestly surprised at how fragged it was), repaired my permissions, and checked for bad sectors on my hard drive (none - woo hoo!).
For those of you who purchased Drive Genius 2 that is not version 2.0.3, go to Prosoft's website and you can download the latest update for free, as well as get a free bootable disk, if needed. I think a lot of the people who left bad reviews never came back and updated them because the software does automatically check for updates and 2.0.3 was released in June 2008.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Is your Mac running slower? You probably need to defrag your drive. Although OS X optimizes the files in the Mac, it doesn't optimize the drive itself. Drive Genius 2 has the ability to defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly. This is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive (Part of the ProCare program offered by Apple). This software makes hard drive maintenance tasks painless, fast and easy. So prevent disaster by using Drive Genius 2 to maintain your computer.
Bootable DVD allows you to boot directly from the DVD Features - Partition, Shred, Details, Initialize, Duplicate, Integrity Check, Repair, Rebuild, Verify, Fix Permissions, S.M.A.R.T Status, Defragment, Benchtest, Surface Scan, Sector Editor (for expert users only). System 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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