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.

What is the most popular feature of Drive Genius 2? Drive Genius's most popular feature is disk defrag. It has the ability to optimize the drive, by putting all pieces of the file together that over time have become fragmented and spread in various locations across the drive. It then combines all the empty free space together into one contiguous block. This in turn improves the overall speed and performance of the drive.

What is the difference between Drive Genius 2 and Data Rescue II? Drive Genius 2 is a disk utility that features a wide array of features including; directory repair, repartition on-the-fly, device/volume cloning, integrity testing, benchmarking, secure erase and several other tools to help maintain your hard drive. Data Rescue II is emergency hard drive recovery software. It is used to recover data from a crashed, corrupted or unmountable hard drive. It also has the ability to recover deleted files.

How often should I defrag my hard drive? Depending on the size of files you typically work with... every 2 months or so. If you are working with smaller files (Microsoft® Office, emails) we would recommend running defrag every 3 to 4 months.

I thought OS X automatically optimized the hard drive? OS X only optimizes files under 20MB. It also only optimizes the files not the drive, so even though the smaller files are optimized there can be empty space in between the files themselves. Drive Genius 2 has the ability to optimize the drive, by putting all pieces of the file together that over time have become fragmented and spread in various locations across the drive. It then combines all the empty free space together into one contiguous block. This in turns improves the overall speed and performance of the drive. Drive Genius 2 is also used at Apple's Genius Bar in their Apple ProCare program for this primary feature.

Can I really repartition my hard drive without losing any data? Drive Genius 2 is able to repartition your hard drive 'on-the-fly' (no need to reformat the hard drive) allowing you to add, delete, hide or expand partitions live.

Why do I need a bootable DVD? The bootable DVD allows you to boot directly from the DVD, so you can work directly on your main boot drive. You can run it as an application to work on other internal or external hard drives.

Why should I choose Drive Genius 2 over the competitors? Drive Genius was originally introduced in at Macworld San Francisco in 2005, and since that time it has become one of the top selling utilities at the Apple Store. It has been reviewed and evaluated by all the major Mac publications and has received glowing reviews and awards. It was named "Labs Winner" as the best tool in its class by MacUser - UK magazine 2 years in a row. Drive Genius 2 is also used at Apple's Genius Bar in their Apple ProCare program.

What is Prosoft's support policy? Prosoft takes pride in the best customer service possible. We do that by offering low cost replacement DVDs and reasonable upgrade policies. If a customer looses their DVD or needs an updated one mailed, it is only $5.00...enough to cover our costs. We also offer unlimited FREE pre and post technical phone or email support. Our support team is located in our corporate office in Northern California and is available from 8:00am to 5:00pm PST.