Drive Genius 4 requires an Intel
Processor-based Mac
- OS X 10.8.3
- 1GB RAM Minimum
- Intel® Processor
Current Shipping Version: 4.x.x
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Drive Genius 4
Speed Up | Clean Up | Protect Your Mac
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. 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. You can also personalize and organize your Mac hard drive icons with IconGenius™.
NEW Features in Drive Genius 4
- Proprietary BootWell™ technology to create a small recovery drive from your existing OS X startup drive. Recovery drives can be used as emergency startup drives and are needed to perform certain operations on the main startup drive.
- Enhanced and simplified interface to run tools simultaneously on multiple drives.
- New Instant DrivePulse™ utility that runs DrivePulse™ tests for the most common set of drive problems and presents a pass/fail status.
- Enhanced Clone tool can copy the startup drive (any in-use drive in fact) without the need to restart, and can copy from a larger drive to a smaller drive.
- New IconGenius™ utility to set a custom icon for drives and folders; including several collections of custom-designed icons.
- Tuned for OS X Yosemite and works with 10.8.3 and newer.
Drive Genius 4 Features |
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BootWell™
Drive Genius's NEW BootWell™ Technology creates a special secondary startup drive that can be used to maintain or repair your main startup drive. |
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Find Duplicates
Locates duplicate files and replaces those duplicates with an alias. Find Duplicates is powered by the award-winning technology of DriveSlim®. |
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Find Large Files
Powered by DriveSlim® - Large File Search finds very large files that are taking up space on your hard drive. This could be large video file that came preloaded on your Mac or some funny email attachment someone sent you. It is likely that you are not even aware of these files and Large File Search helps you keep tabs on what files are on your hard drive, allowing you to mark and delete the ones you no longer need. |
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IconGenius
Set a custom icon for a drive or folder. Personalize and make drive identification easier with fun, useful and cool icons. |
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Speed
Measures the optimal raw performance of your drive since it was last connected to your computer. Looking for a fast drive? |
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Instant DrivePulse
Runs the most common DrivePulse® tests and provides a pass/fail status for the drive. |
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Active Files
Active Files alerts you to files that are in use that may prevent you from shutting down your Mac or ejecting a drive. No more guesswork. |
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Physical Check
Checks a drive for hardware related problems that may result from a damaged drive, a bad cable, or a bad connection. |
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Consistency Check
Checks for possible file and folder corruption on formatted drives. Detecting and repairing any errors can help prevent data loss. |
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Repair
Can repair most kinds of logical file and folder errors on a drive to prevent future critical problems and potential data loss. |
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Rebuild
In circumstances where a file name is lost, the data is still there, but not accessible, Rebuild may be able to list lost file names to the file data again. |
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Fix Permissions
Permission inconsistencies can result from bad application installers and lead to applications failing to open or randomly crashing. |
Note: The Drive Genius 4.x.x boot DVD will boot February 2011 and earlier Macs only. If your Mac was purchased after February 2011 you will need to create a separate DG4 Startup Disk.
