Drive Genius II Destroyed My Disk, Leopard 10.5.3

[chelsel]

WARNING!!!

I purchased and downloaded the latest Drive Genius II based on recommendations across the web. After running Repair/Verify to confirm that my OS X partition was working properly I ran a Defrag. After it was reported that the defrag was successful I rebooted... however my system will no longer start from the Macintosh HD. Booting from the Leopard install DVD and running Disk Utility reports that the volume is corrupted.

I am going to attempt a Time Machine restore now. Warning to all others, be very certain you have a backup before using Drive Genius on your 10.5.3 Leopard Macintosh HD!!!

(posted from Windows using the still working Windows bootcamp partition)

 

[chelsel]

turns out Drive Genius is not compatible with Bootcamp enabled systems!! In their favor, they have agreed to refund my money, and my Time Machine was restore (the 2nd time I tried).

 

[flanamac]

Agreed. I ran a repartioning request on Drive Genius and it didn't work as supposed to (corrupted my drive). I am requesting a refund from Other World Computing where I bought it.

Mac OSx has plenty of power and utilities for my needs. I am not sure why Disk Utilities is put down so much by 3rd party software (although I understand you can either hype your product, or put down others to raise awareness for marketing purposes).