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#DRIVE GENIUS 2 UPDATE SOFTWARE#

This will allow Drive Genius to instruct the hard drive to reallocate any bad data areas that are found during the Physical Check. If Drive Genius or DrivePulse informs you it has found bad areas, or you suspect there are bad areas on a drive you can enable Revive damaged areas. Each drive has a reserved amount of space to handle these reallocations. Most modern drives will automatically reallocate any bad data areas they encounter to another area on the drive. What does the Revive Damaged Areas option do within a Physical Check? However all repair and recovery utilities, and anything that requires writing data to the internal drive, requires starting your computer from a secondary drive so Drive Genius can have exclusive access to your primary drive. A BootWell drive can be used to maintain, repair, or recover your primary startup drive in the event of a primary drive error.įor maintenance purposes, most Drive Genius utilities work on the primary startup drive 'live' with no need for a secondary startup drive. Using a BootWell allows the user to run utilities such as defrag, repair, repartition, or rebuild with minimal effort.

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This prevents the use of certain utilities while you are booted into the drive.Ĭreating and using a BootWell allows our users to boot into a strictly Drive Genius environment without the need to create a full secondary startup disk.

#DRIVE GENIUS 2 UPDATE SOFTWARE#

With the release of OS X Mavericks or any Mac made after March 2011, Apple made a change in their operating systems going forward, which no longer allows 3rd party software to unmount the main internal boot drive while you are booted into it. Any device you attempt to use must be hi-speed USB 3.0 and 32GB or larger. Our BootWell drive is a good solution and is available from our website for a nominal price.Īlternatively, you can create your own, however we cannot guarantee compatibility with all device manufacturers. This BootWell drive has been chosen after rigorous testing and found this to have the best read and write speeds. The current supported macOS operating systems are resource intensive and therefore will require a Hi-Speed flash drive to create a Drive Genius BootWell. We have tested the read and write speed on this flash drive on the different macOS versions that Drive Genius supports. It will run at a higher speed on older USB 2.0 Macs and even faster on a newer Mac with USB 3.0 ports. The BootWell drive purchased with Drive Genius is a Hi-Speed USB 3.0 flash drive.

The whole-drive Secure Erase option.ĭrive Genius utilities will automatically prompt you to restart using a BootWell drive as needed. However certain utilities require starting your computer from a secondary drive so they can have exclusive access to your primary drive, this is where the BootWell comes in.

Most Drive Genius utilities work on your primary internal hard drive “live” with no need for a secondary startup drive. The Drive Genius BootWell drive is used to maintain and manage your primary internal hard drive on your Mac.

What is a Drive Genius BootWell and why should I buy it?

We cannot guarantee compatibility with any other third party antivirus utility, and suggest evaluating the full-feature demo version of Drive Genius with your current setup if you have concerns about compatibility. However there is no requirement to Uninstall and the warning can be permanently disabled by checking 'Do not show this message again' and then clicking the Continue button.Ī simple workaround would be to disable the antivirus during the time in which you’re using the software, or to set up an exception. Why does Drive Genius say it is not compatible with my virus protection?ĭrive Genius is compatible with most Virus Protection, however we have seen issues with Drive Genius and Virus Protection software trying to gain access to the same drive.ĭrive Genius now includes its own malware tool, and DrivePulse will monitor most downloaded files in real time, reducing the need for additional software.īased on past customer experience, and testing we have seen conflicts with Virus Protection software.

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