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Drive Genius By Prosoft Engineering Inc | 
 enlarge | From: Global Marketing Partners
Category: Software
List Price: $129.00
Buy New: $38.99
You Save: $90.01 (70%)
New (3) Used (1) from $19.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5911
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: No Operating System
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.2
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 36100
Model: 36100
UPC: 794038361003
EAN: 0794038361003
ASIN: B000J4OXF0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Find problems before they find you with these comprehensive hardware verification tests | | • | Rebuild and replace OS X volume structures to regain access to files that have become lost or hidden | | • | Read and display SMART diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures | | • | Make sure your hard drive performance is what it should be with comprehensive speed tests | | • | Verify your hard drive's reliability with a complete suite of non-destructive read verification tests |
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Product Description
Drive Genius 1.6 provides unsurpassed hard drive management. It's packed with powerful tools: 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 securely erase the data from volumes/drives per Department of Defense standards. Drive Genius can also hide partitions and duplicate volumes or drives swiftly. From performance tuning, to disaster recovery, Drive Genius provides all the tools needed to take control of your hard drive, and your digital life. Fine tune all aspects of your system with direct, advanced byte viewing and editing of all data on your drives, volumes and files Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your data more efficiently Stop prying eyes with DoD compliant secure erase that removes all traces of data from free space and deleted files
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| Customer Reviews:
Got an older version ...surprise to me March 1, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased drive Genius.. It works.
Then, about 10 days later, I found out that a newer version (2.1 ??) is available. An upgrade to the current version 2.0. I think I got 1.5.. Well it works anyhow ..
 Excellent product February 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Drive Genius is a must for me because it enables me to create and manage partitions on my iMac hard drive and external backup drives -- without destroying data. I use it mainly to create, delete, move, resize, and defragment partitions. And it's super easy to use.
One key benefit: I don't know of a way to resize a partition using Mac Disk Utility (OS X 10.4 - Tiger), without destroying data. Not sure about Leopard. Drive Genius does this flawlessly every time (so far!).
Other features of Drive Genius I haven't used, but that look pretty cool:
* Duplicate a drive or volume
* Repair a corrupt drive or volume
* Rebuild drive structure
* Fix permissions
* Shred a drive (overwrite 3 times with blank data) - essential before selling, donating, or taking a machine in for repair
For $99 (or $59 upgrade from previous version) this software is a steal.
 Garbage...doesen't even work or do anything....and over priced January 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I downloaded this program and bought it because no features work unless you buy this crap.....Big mistake. All it did was screw up my system disc's and every feature failed when ran....useless garbage and for 99 dollars!!?!?!? Disc utility does the same exact things but actually fixes your disc errors not just tells you you have them and fails at every attempt to fix them.
Avoid like the plague......I always keep my computers running top shape using a varity of programs and apps so I thought I would try this...don't make the same mistake. I had to erase a HD with no errors on it after scanning with this crap product, luckly disc utility fixed it and I had it backed up on another drive..
Have to be a Genius to Use It March 19, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this a while ago after having some problems with my Mac and having to bring it in to the shop. I saw on their work order that all they did was run diagnostic software, and I had read good reviews of Drive Genius elsewhere so thought I would give it a try.
Big mistake! Although I have been a computer user for many years, and would say that my experience level is intermediate (I can keep my computer running pretty well in most instances, have used Terminal, have installed hardware parts and done other troubleshooting successfully), this software is almost impossible for me to use because the documentation is so poorly written.
It comes with a digital user's manual, but I honestly do not understand anything the writers are talking about. I believe you're supposed to re-start your computer and boot from the disk that they supply, but that's never actually made clear for someone with little experience to this kind of thing. And it doesn't explain what all the functions of the software are. They really assume that you already know what you're doing. I have tried running some of the tests, but I'm honestly not sure what some of them mean. I've been having a problem with a hard drive and ran a test on it yesterday, and it gave me some kind of obscure message and said "done" but it didn't fix the problem, and I was left not knowing what to do next.
I was at their website a couple of weeks ago and they had an update listed, but it was written in such a manner that I did not understand a thing they were saying. It was not clear to me whether I needed to get a new "boot disk" after the update or not. This company needs a tech writer who understands that not everyone understands all this computer jargon!
In short, if you are an experienced computer user with lots of diagnostic and troubleshooting skills already, this product may be okay for you. But if you are an average computer user like me, who occasionally encounters a problem with their drive and would like easy-to-understand software to check and diagnose the hard drive, this software is *not* for you. I prefer to use Apple's own diagnostic utilities or the Tech Tool deluxe CD that you can download if you have a service agreement with them.
 Great software for troubleshooting March 14, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I only give it 4 stars because the CDs in the package were blank for some reason. Using my serial number, Prosoft gave me a way to download the image. But I'd expect the product to ship with properly burned discs since the bootable discs are an important part of recovery.
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