Prosoft Drive Genius 3.1.x - Mac
Maintain, Manage, Optimize & Repair your Hard Drives

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

New Features		Existing Features
	DrivePulse® Monitors the overall health of your drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems		Repair Quickly fix corruption and errors to get your damaged drive up and running fast.
	64-bit Runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS 10.6 or later with a compatible 64-bit processor.		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).
	Enhanced Defrag Provides even better defragmentation of your files and even more fragmentation information in a new user interface.		Information In-depth report of specifications and space utilization of all drives or OS X volumes.
	RAID Support Support for hardware RAID and Apple's software RAID.		Initialize Easy, high level OS X formatting to prepare new hard drives for use on your computer.
	Enhanced Repartition Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your drive more efficiently.		DriveSlim™ Free up more space on your hard drive with Duplicate Files Search, Large Files Search, Language Support Removal and Universal Binary slimming.
	Scan Realtime bad-block scanning and an extended block verification that stress tests the read/write validity.		Benchtests Make sure your hard drive performance is what it should be with comprehensive speed tests and graphical comparisons to other common configurations.
	Email Notifications E-mail notifications can be sent when long-running tasks complete and you are away from your computer.		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.
Drive Genius 3.1.x - System Requirements Drive Genius 3.1.x Requires an Intel Processor-based Mac - Mac OS 10.5.3 or newer - 512 MB RAM Minimum - Intel® Processor - DVD drive Boot-disc Requirements: - DVD drive - 512mb RAM Minimum - Intel® Processor Current Shipping Version: 3.1.x			Clone Fast and easy volume or entire drive cloning.
			Integrity Check Find problems before they find you with these comprehensive hardware verification tests.
			Supports Hot File Adaptive Clustering OS X monitors the files that you access the most often (read only). It then moves them to a special "hot zone" on the hard drive. During this process OS X defragments them and then stores them on an area of the hard drive that has the fastest access time.

Apple's current Boot DDK will not boot the following Macs:

• 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

If you have one of the Macs listed above, then it is recommended that you use a method from the list below:

• 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.

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Data Rescue 3 - Mac
Do-it-Yourself Data Recovery Software

• Recovers data from a crashed hard drive or accidental deletetion.
• Award winning technology, works when other software fails
• Bootable emergency DVD

Data Rescue 3 is the best digital data recovery software on the market for recovering files from a problem hard drive or that have been previously deleted. Data Rescue 3 is for computer data recovery and works when other tools fail. Data Rescue 3 is also completely safe to use since it does not attempt any risky repairs to the drive it's scanning. Data Rescue 3 is the safest, most powerful software for data recovery. Data Rescue 3 is the same software used by many data recovery services! Data Rescue 3 has saved our customers from having to use a data recovery service, which can cost thousands.

You will need to save your recovered files to either an internal or external hard drive (USB or FireWire), removable media device (such as a Zip or MO) or a networked drive.

Q: Why is Data Rescue 3 different than other products on the market?
A: Focusing on data recovery, instead of hard drive repair, Data Rescue 3 will work in more cases, recover more effectively, and deliver your files in better condition than other utilities you may have tried in the past. Data Rescue 3 analyzes your entire hard drive looking for your data, then it meticulously re-assembles your files and stores them to a different location.

Features

Do-it-yourself Data Recovery Software

• Award-winning software, works when other software fails.
• Recovers all types of files from your hard drive
• Works if the drive fails to mount or only partially operates.
• Recovers deleted, lost, and damaged files.
• Recovers digital pictures from your camera media even after it has been erased or reformatted.
• Recover your whole drive or just the files you need.

Fast and Easy Results

• Bootable Emergency DVD.
• No need to disassemble your computer
• FREE technical support via phone or email.

Data Rescue 3 Requirements

Application Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
• 512MB RAM minimum, 1GB or more recommended
• PowerPC G4, G5, or Intel
• 1.0GHz processor minimum
• A Firewire, USB 2.0, eSATA or internal drive to recover to*.

Boot-disc Requirements:

• DVD drive
• 512MB RAM minimum, 1GB or more recommended
• PowerPC G4, G5, or Intel
• 1.0GHz processor minimum
• A Firewire, USB 2.0, eSATA or internal drive to recover to*.

* This drive must have free space for recovered files, plus 1% the size of the drive or volume to be scanned.

In addition, to run the animated interface requires the following:

• Quartz Extreme graphics card
• 32MB VRAM
• 1GHz CPU
• 512MB RAM
• Mac OS X 10.5.x or greater

If the minimum requirements for the animated interface are not met, the program will revert to a non-animated interface.