If you have ever asked me in my classes “is there one utility I should have to deal with hard drive issues.....” you know my answer has been Drive Genius for a long time.

Why? Because you only need one if it is this one. For a long time I used at least 3 utilities. One for directory issues, one for defraging and one for all the other ‘issues’ that hard drive can have.

Drive Genius handles all of it and more.

(from the website - but says it all)

Drive Genius 3 is the best disk utility for the Mac platform. A new user interface, Drive Pulse®, 64-bit, Enhanced Defrag, RAID Support, Enhanced Repartition, Scan and Email Notifications are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 3. Optimize your drive with Drive Genius 3. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!*

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 3 makes these tedious tasks painless, fast and easy.

Back to my words. Now 64 bit and a cool interface that makes figuring out the program pretty easy. A favorite feature is Drive Slim. It finds duplicates and helps you get rid of the really big files that are never used and just takes up space.

Bottom Line - if you want your hard drive happier, faster and more problem free - get it a genius - Drive Genius 3 from Prosoft.

Click the Package  photo for more info.

By the way if you drive does crap out Prosoft has answers for that too. Data Rescue and Data Backup. They also offer recovery services for the worst scenarios.