Make Bootable USB Disk
Bootable Backups Made Easy With Drive Genius 3 Thursday, December 12th, 2013 Author: Guest Blogger. By Jennifer Bell, Guest Blogger. One of my favorite tools in Drive Genius 3 is the Duplicate feature. Drive Genius 3’s Duplicate tool serves as a great method to create disk images and device-to-device clone backups.
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The types of bootable USB disk that could be made through DiskGenius include USB-FDD, USB-ZIP and USB-HDD. For some motherboards, not all these three type of USB bootable disk can be used to startup the computer. Follow the manufacturer instructions if available. Or try these three types one by one. After the USB bootable disk was created, the free DOS system and the DOS version DiskGenius software will be copied into it. It can be used to manage disk and partitions under DOS system.
If you have any files on the USB disk (or memory stick), copy them to a hard disk first as they will be destroyed by the following process.
1. Make USB-FDD bootable disk. Selecting the USB disk you want to make bootable, then click the menu 'Tools' -> 'Make USB-FDD bootable disk'. The following message box will display:
Press 'Yes' button, DiskGenius will display the 'Format partition' dialog box:
The operation is same as the 'Format Partition'. You may set file system type, cluster size and volume name on this dialog box. The conversion will be started and a FreeDOS system and the DOS version DiskGenius software will be created after the 'Format' button is pressed. When the conversion completed, the following message box will be displayed. Please unplug the USB disk (or memory stick).
2. Make USB-ZIP bootable disk. Selecting the USB disk (or memory stick) you want to make bootable at first, then click the menu 'Tools' -> 'Make USB-ZIP bootable disk' or right click the USB disk and then select 'Make USB-ZIP bootable disk' from the context menu. The next operation is same as the 'Make USB-FDD bootable disk'.
3. Make USB-HDD bootable disk. The HDD mode is just same as the regular hard drive partition mode. Usually, the conversion may not be required. What you should do is creating and formatting the partition and then creating a DOS system on it.
If your USB device is on the FDD or ZIP mode, you can convert it back to HDD mode by the following operations:
Selecting the USB disk (or memory stick) you want to convert at first, then click the menu 'Tools' -> 'Convert to HDD mode' or right click the USB disk and then select 'Convert to HDD mode' from the context menu. The following warning message will be displayed. Please back up the files on the USB disk immediately.
Press the 'Yes' button, the conversion will be completed immediately. Then you can create a bootable partition right now, as the following:
If you press the 'No' button, no partition will be created. You can use the USB disk in the normal way. If you press the 'Yes' button, the 'Create New Partition' dialog box will be displayed:
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Drive Genius 3
Company: Prosoft
Price: $99.95
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Company: Prosoft
Price: $99.95
http://www.prosofteng.com
Nothing is ever perfect, nor do things work perfectly all the time. When things go wrong with your computer, sometimes it’s something very simple that will only take a few minutes or one or two steps to correct. Other times, you aren’t so lucky and that’s when you have to bring out the right tools to find out what’s wrong with your computer. On the Mac you have Disk Utility or you can utilize applications developed by other companies, such as Disk Warrior or Tech Tool. Among the latter is also Prosoft’s Drive Genius 3, another tool that you might want to consider adding to your utility toolbox to help you out when things go bad.
Prosoft’s Drive Genius 3 is their updated 64-bit application that allows you to monitor the health and well-being of your Mac. An updated user interface allows you to select Information, displaying complete information on your Mac’s hard drives and volumes; Defrag, letting you optimize your hard drive for best performance; Drive Slim, permitting you to recover space on your hard drive by removing unused or duplicate file and more; Repair, which allows you to verify, repair or rebuild your directory and to keep an eye on your system; Scan, which checks every byte on your drive for any errors; plus Drive Pulse, allowing you to monitor your volumes and hard drives in the background, monitoring reliability and performance. Realistically, you are talking on the spot, around the clock system health monitoring, much like being in a medical facility that has you on a monitor, watching for problems to correct them before they become more serious.
As with most other items, Mac-related, Drive Genius 3 requires Mac OS X, version 10.5.3 or later, an Intel processor and 512MB of RAM to work with your Mac. When I received my copy of Drive Genius 3, I installed it on my MacBook running 10.6 and checked for updates, which updated the software to version 3.0.1. Backing up my MacBook’s hard drive, I can now check on the status of my Mac by either running Drive Genius from the backup or by utilizing the bootable DVD that comes with the package.
When I first ran Drive Genius, I ran the Information portion, quick and easy. Then I ran the Scan portion, just to see if it would find anything on the 500GB hard drive I had installed in my MacBook several months earlier. Just shy of 3 hours, Drive Genius advised that there were no issues. I then ran Repair, looking to see if anything turned up; no problems, good to go. Then I ran Defrag. Yes, I know that with OS X there is not really a deep need for defragging a hard drive, but old habits are hard to break. In earlier versions of the Mac OS and on the older Macs that I used, I would normally defrag the hard drive every few months, just to keep things tuned up.
Besides these functions, Drive Genius can conduct an Integrity Check, doing long term integrity tests; Initialize your hard drive, Repartition your hard drive without re-initializing by Shrinking, Expanding, Adding or Deleting volumes; Duplicate your hard drive, making a clone to another hard drive or copy a drive to a new disk image file; Shred files, folders and hard drives by overwriting data; and even BenchTest your system.
Now, with Drive Genius 3, if things are taking a while and you have other things to do, you can set it up to send you an email notification when a time-intensive task is finally complete. So no more sitting in front of the computer, waiting for things to finish up. Now you can mow the lawn, shovel snow or take time to play with the kids while your Mac is being checked out. My MacBook is monitored as I use it, and if something were to go wrong, I know that Drive Genius is there to help correct the problem.
All in all, I give Drive Genius 3 a My Mac rating of 8 out of a possible 10.