Drive Genius 3 for Mac, Hard Drive Maintenance Utility, Speed Up, Clean Up and Protect your Mac, used by Apple

3 3 out of 5 stars | 223 ratings

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Last update: 05-26-2024


About this item

Is your Mac running slower? Is your hard drive filling up and you don't know why?
Are you seeing the beach ball or having other issues with your Mac?
Award-Winning Features; DrivePulse, Enhanced Defrag, DriveSlim, Enhanced Repartition
Drive Genius 4 Now Available Users Running OS X 10.8.3 and newer.

Top reviews from the United States

Richard Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Tech Support
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014
I own a two year old Mac Lion OSX, ended up upgrading the operating system to OSX Mavericks and then it began to slow down, way down. The spinning beach ball began to appear more frequently and I began to have many forced quits in the middle of important projects. I read about the Drive Genius 3 on Amazon. I read all the reviews about how well this product worked but more importantly about how awesome the tech support was. Boy were they right on! I purchased this product wishing and hoping to restore my Mac back to it's warp speed and I was not disappointed! Even though I was not tech savvy enough to get this product up and running by myself, I still highly recommend it's purchase! Reggie from Tech Support was clam, kool and collected! He guided me through every step of the install with patience, understanding and expertise! It had turned out that my Mac Lion had 60% hard drive fragmentation and the Drive Genius 3 resolved all of my hard drive issues. It is now running like it did two years ago, when I took it out of the box. I couldn't be more pleased with both this product and their amazing tech support staff! I highly recommend the purchase of this product if you too are having issues with your Macintosh slowing down, crashing or the sudden appearance of that damn spinning beach ball!
A big, giant thank you to Reggie for all of your help! The Drive Genius 3 was worth every penny!
T. Danner
1.0 out of 5 stars Repair? I don't think so.
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2011
My main hard drive in my Mac Pro stopped working. An employee at the Apple store said this program should get the drive straightened out and working again. The drive runs, but the file structure or something is messed up.
I downloaded the "Trial" version of Drive Genius, but it would not allow a repair, so I bought the program from Amazon.
The program told me I had some errors on the drive but would not fix it, which is why I bought it in the first place.

It might be good for other things but it did not work at all for me.
DBChas
2.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2015
Here's something hardly worth the price or even bothering to install. It's been panicking over one of my drives, claiming bad sectors. It can't analyze the drive and certainly can't defrag or even repair it. So what's the point? I suppose it might be useful as a warming, or would be were it not for the fact that Disk Utilities, which comes with the OS tells me the disk is fine--after it does verify it and would repair it if I needed it repaired. Everything on the drive, and it's a big Western Digital at 2TB, reads fine, or looks fine since what's on it are images.

I might just uninstall Drive Genius and not the hard drive it claims is bad, though I suppose I can still use it to defrag other drives. But wait, I tried that and it couldn't defrag that one either!
Randolph Kinney
3.0 out of 5 stars Defrag can cause problems
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2010
The reason for purchase of Drive Genius 3 was for the defrag capability and other utilities. I have an iMac with the Intel icore 5, 4 CPUs. Can't boot to the DG3 disk because of a known problem where Apple has not released to developers the code for the core 5 & 7 CPUs for writing a boot sector (according to the tech support at Prosoft). I booted to an external drive to run defrag for my boot drive. During the process of defrag, the internal drive became corrupt with no possible recovery other than a repartition, format of the drive. I run Superduper, a utility that backs up my internal boot drive to my external drive and also makes it bootable. It is a good thing that I had all the internal boot drive's content backed up on the external drive. I used Superduper to restore the internal boot drive. I discovered that this also defrags because the files are written sequentially. I tried to restore from Time Machine by calling Apple for help during my problem. It turns out that using the install DVD with OS X Snow Leopard boots but the Time Machine retore operation stops part way through the restore after rebooting to the internal boot drive. I suspect the reason is because there is no operating system on the internal hard drive during the restore process.

Bottom line, I feel the best way to defrag safely is to have a program like Superduper where erasing and reformat of the internal boot drive from the external back up drive and then a restore. That produces zero percent fragmentation.
amateur wrench
4.0 out of 5 stars good, but a little complicated to use
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014
I'm new to apple, bought an macbook air in 2012. I was experiencing the never-ending spinning beach ball that I think was caused by a video conversion software I downloaded and trying to move large video files. The mac utilities didn't do much, I decided to get this since, as advertised, the folks at the genius bar use it to tune macs. But for newer macs, it's not plug and play, I contacted prosoft support and promptly got this reply:

"What year is your Mac Book Air? All mac's that are manufactured from 2011 to the present will not boot from the disk (DVD) because apple stop support Disk Development Kit allowing these macs to start up using DVD or CD. Only macs from 2010 and below will boot to the dvd/cd since these macs has Disk Development Kit included. What I can recommend is to create a secondary start up disk to run repair. How to create a secondary start up disk: [...] Note: The instruction is for Lion but will also work and apply for 10.8 and 10.9"

I'm booting the software from an external hard drive for my newer mac and it did fix most problems and the mac ran better. Since then, I've downloaded OS Mavericks from itunes and that seems to have made my mac run like new.

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