This software is ideal for optimizing, managing, and preserving your hard drive.
Drive Genius is a highly effective utility designed specifically for OS X, providing unparalleled storage management capabilities. The application boasts an intuitive interface and contains a wide range of powerful tools, including a drive optimizer, a comprehensive repair facility for analyzing, repairing and rebuilding volumes, as well as impressive testing capabilities with media surface scanning, performance benchmarking, and data integrity checking.
The software is highly versatile and can be used to initialize drives, create and delete partitions, and securely erase them according to the Department of Defense's standards. It also has the ability to rapidly hide partitions and duplicate volumes or drives. Additionally, Drive Genius features advanced tools for resizing and moving volumes without the need for reformatting, as well as a sector editing tool that enables modification of data within any sector of the drive — all highly effective features that even seasoned Mac experts will appreciate.
It's worth mentioning that the application's current boot DVD does not support Leopard. Apple has not yet released this functionality to developers, meaning that it isn't possible to provide a bootable Leopard DVD. This affects users of Macs released after June of 2007. A workaround involves loading Drive Genius 2 onto a secondary bootable drive that has Leopard on it, and booting from it. Once Apple releases the DDK for a Leopard Boot Disc, a new bootable DVD will be released. However, running Drive Genius 2 as an application on your newer Mac is not affected by this, and only pertains to the bootable DVD usage.
The software is highly versatile and can be used to initialize drives, create and delete partitions, and securely erase them according to the Department of Defense's standards. It also has the ability to rapidly hide partitions and duplicate volumes or drives. Additionally, Drive Genius features advanced tools for resizing and moving volumes without the need for reformatting, as well as a sector editing tool that enables modification of data within any sector of the drive — all highly effective features that even seasoned Mac experts will appreciate.
It's worth mentioning that the application's current boot DVD does not support Leopard. Apple has not yet released this functionality to developers, meaning that it isn't possible to provide a bootable Leopard DVD. This affects users of Macs released after June of 2007. A workaround involves loading Drive Genius 2 onto a secondary bootable drive that has Leopard on it, and booting from it. Once Apple releases the DDK for a Leopard Boot Disc, a new bootable DVD will be released. However, running Drive Genius 2 as an application on your newer Mac is not affected by this, and only pertains to the bootable DVD usage.
What's New
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