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Drive Genius is a hard-working hard-drive utility from longtime Mac developers Prosoft Engineering, with the honorable distinction of being employed at the Apple Store Genius Bar as part of their ProCare Yearly Tune Up service.The interface of Drive Genius shares some similarities with that of its data-recovery sister program Data Rescue: you navigate through a 3D 'tool arena,' a sort of virtual lazy Susan of hard-drive tasks that's fast and fluid enough to not be annoying (and it's actually kind of fun). You choose from six primary tasks, Information (with detailed readouts on S.M.A.R.T. Status, file system type, and more), Defrag (to optimize drive speed), DriveSlim (to free up space by eliminating duplicate or unused files), Repair (to verify, repair, or rebuild a volume), Scan (to check for bad blocks), and DrivePulse (a monitoring tool that checks your drive in the background, when your computer is idle-although unfortunately there's no way to turn off its menubar icon if you decide to use it). You can also flip to the other side of the 'tool arena' for even more esoteric tasks: Integrity Check, Initialize, Repartition, Duplicate, Shred (with up to 35-pass Gutmann erasing), Benchtest, and (perhaps scariest of all, 'for expert use only') Sector Edit.Many of these tasks can be time-consuming, but Drive Genius does a good job of keeping you entertained with graphs, lists, and live updates-or you can always just have Drive Genius notify you by email whenever it completes a task.
You'll also want the DVD version of this program (which you can either have mailed to you, or download and burn yourself), so that you can work on your drive when it's not running the OS (or when it won't boot at all).Drive utilities aren't for everyone (and Drive Genius isn't cheap), but if you're interested in keeping your Mac in tip-top shape, it's hard to go wrong with a tool that the pros use. Drive Genius gives you a lot of features in an all-in-one package that's easy to use and understand. Get faster performance from your Mac while also protecting it with Drive Genius 4.
The award-winning and improved DrivePulse feature alerts you to hard drive issues before they become major problems. Enhanced and simplified interface to run tools simultaneously on multiple drives.
Optimized for OS X Yosemite, top features like Defrag and DriveSlim will help keep your Mac running fast. The all-new BootWell tool lets you create a special bootable secondary drive to Defrag or Repair your main hard drive.screenshots. Reply by Prosoft Support on January 28, 2015Hi HudsonwWe appreciate your comments on the GUI, we are always looking for input on how to make the software more appealing.Drive Genius 4 is capable of running the repair and rebuild on drives with multiple partitions, however you need to select the individual partition you wish to repair/rebuild from the drop down menu on the top of the feature section of the software.If you have any other problems or concerns with the software I would recommend reaching out to our technical support team for further assistance.http://www.prosofteng.com/support/. Reply by Prosoft Support on January 28, 2015Hi Tbanger9I would recommend looking into our newest version of the software Drive Genius 4. In Drive Genius 4 we have added our new BootWell Technology which acts as a secondary startup location which you can boot your computer from in order to defrag your internal drive.Otherwise our technical support team would be more than happy to walk you through the process of creating a Secondary startup disk for Drive Genius 3.http://www.prosofteng.com/support/.
Reply by Prosoft Support on January 28, 2015Hi PavlosidelovDrive Genius is capable of defragging your drive, however do to the changes made to the OS by Apple you are required to boot from a secondary startup drive in order to gain the root access needed to preform the defrag.To Uninstall Drive Genius you select Drive Genius from the menu bar at the top of your screen then select Uninstall. The steps you received are how to uninstall the software if the uninstaller within the software does not work for you.
If you require any help removing these files you can always call our technical support line so they can walk you through the process.Phone: 1-877-477-6763 (Press 2 for Support)Hours: (Monday - Friday) 7am - 5pm PST. Reply by Prosoft on March 6, 2013We know you're not digging the product right now but I'm inviting you to contact our support team, ask them about some of the things you're having issues with or questions about and they can answer your questions and hopefully make you feel more comfortable about the product- We are definitely a 'legit company' with award winning products as well as a rich history of providing products on the Mac platform (as well as working with Apple in the early years to develop tools directly for the OS).
Find out more about us here:28 years of developing on the Mac platform, including making Drive Setup for Apple as well as many other award-winning, industry standard products. Reply by Prosoft on March 6, 2013Because it's a disk utility product, you can't just drag it to the trash like you can with 99% of the other apps out there-that's because it does have and does need to have certain files running in order to access the low-level data on your drive (most apps don't ever need that). If you want to uninstall it, it's pretty easy to find the 'Uninstall' menu item which is on the Drive Genius Menu Bar item. I know it seems easy but I can understand that in some moments of frustration that customers may not look for it there or find it that easily (but it's there). And once again, please do contact our support team, they are great folks that love to help people out.
Reply by Prosoft on March 6, 2013Hello Bryan,Thanks for taking time to post your thoughts about Drive Genius. I'm surprised by your perception of Drive Genius but wanted to get back to you on some of the items.First of all, we highly recommend that anyone having questions or issues with Drive Genius to give our support team a call or email- They are located right in our same California office and can easily help you out. Many times they can navigate you through something that you might not be doing correctly or you may be skipping over, and it's always just good to have a connection to a company that stands behind their products. Reply by Prosoft Engineering on October 16, 2012Hi -Drive Genius 3 works with Boot Camp, but in limited capacity. This is well documented in the manual and with all 3 versions of Drive Genius dating back to 2006. Which tools were you using on boot camp?The limitations of DG3 and bootcamp are dictated by Apple not by Prosoft.FAQ on Boot CampDoes Drive Genius 3 work with Boot Camp?Drives formatted with Boot Camp now have limited support by Repartition in Drive Genius 3. Drive Genius 3 is capable of shifting Windows Boot Camp partitions, but cannot resize the Windows Boot Camp partition.
This limited support for Boot Camp is intended to help utilize the available free space after duplicating hard drives with Boot Camp partitions onto larger hard drives.Please check the manual. Full Specifications GeneralPublisherPublisher web siteRelease DateNovember 30, 2018Date AddedNovember 30, 2018Version5.3CategoryCategorySubcategoryOperating SystemsOperating SystemsMacAdditional Requirements. macOS Mojave. macOS High Sierra. macOS Sierra. OS X El Capitan.
OS X Yosemite. OS X Mavericks.
OS X Mountain LionDownload InformationFile Size66.9MBFile NameDriveGenius5.3.0.dmgPopularityTotal Downloads54,780Downloads Last Week2PricingLicense ModelPurchaseLimitationsLimited featuresPrice$99.
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Try Drive Genius 3, the best hard drive utility software on the Mac platform - DrivePulse®, Enhanced Defrag, DriveSlim™, Enhanced Repartition are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 3. Drive Genius 3 is used by Apple at the Genius Bar as part of the ProCare Yearly Tune Up.