Author Archives: Mike Fiato

About Mike Fiato

Livermore, California

Clean up your Mac with DriveSlim

Spring cleaning with Drive Genius 3 is a great way to get your Mac running smoothly and prevent further drive issues from becoming a bigger problem.  DriveSlim™ is a great tool to help recover drive space by deleting or archiving … Continue reading

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Should I Defrag my Mac ?

Should you defrag your Mac ? I speak to many Mac users that often ask, “Do I really need to defrag my hard drive on my Mac” and I always tell them “absolutely”. The benefits include faster seek times to … Continue reading

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Using Drive Genius 3 to create a dual-boot Mac

With Apple on its heels of releasing Mountain Lion this summer I thought I would revisit volume cloning with Drive Genius 3’s “ Duplicate “ feature. This may sound trivial but before you upgrade to Mountain Lion I highly recommend … Continue reading

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Using Drive Genius 3 to pretest drives for RAID setup.

Drive Genius 3 has many uses and features to optimize and maintain your digital files. By utilizing the Shred, Scan and Initialize features, you can thoroughly test drives for bad blocks, as well as reformat and shred existing drives with … Continue reading

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Data recovery on a Mac without a bootable hard drive.

Over the last year, Apple has sped up the time interval between launching new operating systems. We saw Lion launch without a bootable DVD and now this summer Mountain Lion is scheduled to release and it will be a download … Continue reading

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DrivePulse may save your drive one day

A great Drive Genius 3 feature that just doesn’t get as much credit as it should is DrivePulse. DrivePulse™, a utility to automatically monitor the health of your hard drives and volumes from the comfort of your desktop. DrivePulse™ will … Continue reading

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Drive Genius 3 “ Shred” feature

A easily overlooked feature of Drive Genius 3 is the Shred feature. Yes, your Mac OSX has a secure erase feature built-in, but when you need to shred a single document or image this is faster and safer. Using the … Continue reading

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Recover Lost or Deleted Files on you PC

It is inevitable that files on a Windows-based PC will be lost occasionally. There are several things that can be done to recover them, from simple actions to more complex solutions. The first thing a user should do – and … Continue reading

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Flash & SD media make simple backups or diagnostic startup disks for your Mac.

SD cards can be a cheap and convenient way to backup your Mac. With most current Mac laptops shipping with built-in SD card slots, you can quickly add a storage device that doesn’t take up a lot of space or … Continue reading

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Recovering data from alternative storage media devices

Data recovery applications like our award-winning Data Rescue have more visibility and success stories recovering data from standard hard drives. However, Data Rescue can recover data from a variety of storage devices. If the storage device has a HFS+, NTFS … Continue reading

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