 |
|
|
Is your Mac running slower? Is your hard drive filling up and you don't know why? Are you seeing the beach ball more or having other issues with your hard drive?
Drive Genius 3.1.x is used by Apple at the Genius Bar as part of the ProCare Yearly Tune Up.
Drive Genius 3.1.x now runs as a 64-bit application and includes new features such as DrivePulse®, the best way to monitor the overall health of your drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems, RAID Support, Email Notifications, and has enhanced previous features including Defrag, Repartition and Scan from version 2.
Drive Genius 3.1.x is the best disk utility for the Mac platform. A new user interface, Drive Pulse®, 64-bit, Enhanced Defrag, RAID Support, Enhanced Repartition, Scan and Email Notifications are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 3.1.x. Optimize your drive with Drive Genius 3.1.x. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!*
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 3.1.x makes these tedious tasks painless, fast and easy.
*Part of ProCare Yearly TuneUp
|
|
This is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!
Drive Genius offers a wide range of features and functions
and the 'Drive Slim' function alone is easily worth the whole purchase!
DriveSlim: Duplicate File Search and Delete
Ever wonder how many duplicate files you have on your hard drive? DriveSlim™ can search
for all duplicates, show you their location and let you delete the unnecessary duplicates.
DriveSlim: Large File Search and Delete
Your Macintosh is loaded with hundreds of thousands of files on the hard drive and most likely
you have some very large files clogging up your hard drive? Whether it's a video of the Dramatic
Chipmunk or some funny email attachment someone sent you, chances are you have large files taking
up space on your hard drive that you don't know about – Easily find them and delete them from you hard drive.
DriveSlim: Multi-language Slimming
Did you know your Mac can speak multiple languages? Unfortunately, unless you speak another language,
that feature (and all the files to support it) are just wasting space on your hard drive - With
DriveSlim™, you can select which languages you want your Mac to support, and delete the
others (that you don't speak).
DriveSlim: Universal Binary support removal
When Apple made the transition to Intel-based Macs, applications had to be made in a way that supported
the new Intel-based Macs as well as the older PowerPC-based Macs from years back. If you're on an Intel-based
Mac you are probably never going to revert back to an older machine that needs Universal support, so why not
free up the hard drive space of those support files? DriveSlim™ makes it easy to trim all those down to
only support the new Intel-based Macs.
DriveSlim: Backup
One of the greatest things about DriveSlim™ is the built-in backup. This feature allows you to backup any and
all files that you have marked for deletion in DriveSlim™. That way, you can save the files off to a CD, DVD
or hard drive, in case you ever want those files back.
|
| Reviews |
"This is a rock-solid program that works as advertised. Drive Genius is definitely worth a place in your utility closet." |
"Beyond tasks that will directly diagnose or solve problems, Drive Genius has options to help you manage your drives." |
"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." |
"A good update that makes this excellent precautionary tool even better." |
"Prosoft picked up where
Norton's left off and frankly did a much better job." |
"Prosoft's Drive Genius lives up to its name by providing comprehensive disk-repair tools and performance enhancing defragmentation routines to keep your Mac's drive in tip-top condition." |
"You may not need DriveGenius,
but your Mac will be
more efficient if you get it." |
"Drive Genius 3 is such a
serious and comprehensive upgrade, it could be the only disk
management tool you need." |
"For users who absolutely rely on their computer, DrivePulse will help detect small problems" |
"Drive Genius 3 is used by Apple at the Genius Bar as part of the ProCare Yearly Tune Up." |
"As far as Mac recovery software goes, Drive Genius 3 is a shining example of what happens when developers put thought and care into their software." |
"We'd recommend this app for any technical Mac user as well as sysadmins looking for some GUI aid for that occasional maintainence and service of a fleet of Macintoshs." |
"With an interface that's close to foolproof, Drive Genius mixes advanced features with ease of use"
Karl Hodge - Macworld UK
|
|
|
|
|
- Drive Genius 3 ships on a bootable DVD created with from the latest Boot DDK from Apple. The current DDK does not support the following Macs:
• MacBook Pro — Released in March 2011
• iMac — Released in May 2011
- A. Booting from a secondary Mac
- Turn off the machine with the hard drive you want to work on.
- Connect both machines using a firewire cable.
- Boot the secondary Mac as you do normally.
- Boot the machine with the hard drive you want to work on, while holding the "T" key.
- Hold the "T" key until you see a FireWire icon floating across the screen.
- B. Booting from a secondary hard drive with OSX installed on it
- Insert your Mac OS X install DVD & restart your system holding down the "C" key.
- When you see the Mac OS X language screen select your language & click the forward arrow to continue.
- Now you are at the Install Mac OS X screen.
- Select the disk you want to install Mac OS X; your options will appear in the window below.
Approximate disk space needed for different OS X versions:
10.5 Leopard = 16GB
10.6 Snow Leopard = 16GB
CAUTION: Choose your installation destination carefully. Take your time & identify the proper hard drive.
Do NOT select the drive you want to work on.
- Once the installation is complete, restart your Mac and hold down the "Option/Alt" key.
- When the option menu comes up, you will see your newly created Mac OS X hard drive, which you can now choose as your new startup disk.
- Once you boot from the new hard drive, you can install Drive Genius 3 and utilize all the features on your internal boot volume.
- C. Booting from a USB thumb drive
- Insert your Mac OS X install DVD & restart your system holding down the "C" key.
- When you see the Mac OS X language screen select your language & click the forward arrow to continue.
- Now you are at the Install Mac OS X screen.
- Select the USB thumb drive you want to install Mac OS X; your options will appear in the window below.
Approximate disk space needed for different OS X versions:
10.5 Leopard = 16GB
10.6 Snow Leopard = 16GB
CAUTION: Choose your installation destination carefully. Take your time & identify the proper USB thumb drive.
Do NOT select the drive you want to work on.
- Once the installation is complete, restart your Mac and hold down the "Option/Alt" key.
When the option menu comes up, you will see your newly created Mac OS X drive, which you can now choose as your new startup disk.
Once you boot from the new USB thumb drive, you can install Drive Genius 3.1.x and utilize all the features on your internal boot volume.
|
|
