Drive Genius 2 - Mac
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

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.

Traditionally, hard drive maintenance and management has been difficult, time-consuming and confusing. In many cases people skip these critical activities — sometimes leading to disaster. Thankfully, Drive Genius 2 makes these tedious tasks painless, fast and easy.

Features

Powerful Management Tool

• Partition – Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your drive more efficiently.
• Shred – Stop prying eyes with DoD compliant (5220.22 - m) secure erase. Removes all traces of data from free space and deleted data on any drive or OS X volume.
• Details – In-depth report of specifications and space utilization of all drives or OS X volumes.
• Initialize – Easy, high level OS X formatting to prepare new hard drives for use on your computer.

Essential Maintenance Tools

• Duplicate – Fast and easy volume or entire drive cloning.
• Integrity Check – Find problems before they find you with these comprehensive hardware verification tests.
• Repair – Quickly fix corruption and errors to get your damaged drive up and running fast.
• Rebuild – Rebuild and replace OS X volume structures to regain access to files that have become lost or hidden.
• Verify – Check OS X volume structures for possible corruption.
• Fix Permissions – Corrects OS X boot volume permissions to improve application performance and compatibility.
• S.M.A.R.T Status – Read and display S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures.

Effective Optimization Tools

• Defragment –Get the most speed and efficiency possible by optimizing your hard drive(s).
• Benchtest – Make sure your hard drive performance is what it should be with comprehensive speed tests and graphical comparisons to other common configurations.
• Surface Scan – Verify your hard drive's reliability with a complete suite of non-destructive read verification tests for any drive or OS X volume.
• Sector Editor – Fine tune all aspects of your system with direct, advanced byte viewing and editing of all data on your drives, volumes and files (for expert users only).

Drive Genius 2 Requires

• 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

Current Shipping Version: 2.0.2

Drive Genius 2 ships on a single Universal DVD. This DVD will boot both PowerPC®-based Macs and Intel®-based Macs.

* IMPORTANT: As of February 2008, the Drive Genius DVD cannot boot some newer model Intel based Macs shipped after June of 2007. As soon as Apple provides third party developers with a Leopard (10.5) compatible boot disc for these newer model Macs, we will produce a new Drive Genius DVD. Contact Technical Support for possible workarounds.

To start up from the bootable DVD, hold down the C key as the computer starts up.