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Content 1............................................................Introduction to DTB 2...................................................................Getting Started 3................................................................Points of Interest 4......................................................................Key Features 5.........................................................Versions Comparison 6,7.............................................................................FAQs 8.........................................................Additional Resources 9................................................................Facts at a Glance 9............................................................Contact Information

Stellar Drive ToolBox 2

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Introduction to DTB
Stellar Drive ToolBox is a set of 12 must have disk utilities to manage, secure, protect & optimize your Mac. These disk utilities include SpeedUP Mac, Drive Defrag, Drive Clone , Partition Manager, File Wipe, Volume Repair, Drive Initialize, Shield , Drive Performance, Raw Data Editor, Drive Stats, Surface Scan and a Bonus utility Data Encryptor.

Highlighters:
o Super Speeds For Your Mac o Optimize & Manage Hard Drive Efciently o Maintain Data Privacy & Security o Improve Your Drive Performance o Clone & Restore Your Drive Stellar Drive ToolBox for Mac OS is comprehensive software to maintain and manage your system in the best way. It optimizes drive performance, protects data and provides easy to use yet powerful features saving you precious time and money. By analyzing and doing necessary repairs of the volume, Stellar Drive ToolBox ensures optimum utilization of the available volumes. The powerful clean up mac options available in the Speedup Mac utility removes all your unwanted les, duplicate les, universal binaries and cache & temporary items, thereby providing free space and accelerating system performace. The Drive Defrag utility improves your drive performance by consolidating fragmented les & free space. It also has a clone utility which helps you to backup and while migrating to new mac. The multi-purpose Wipe utility guarantees permanent sanitization of free space, le/folder, system traces, internet activity, instant messaging and recent le histories. Maintain data privacy and condentiality by completely erasing data beyond recovery. Expert users can also take advantage of the software for editing raw data and thus rectifying disk errors. Advanced option provided in the software help to set schedule for wiping, select wipe algorithm, include le lter setting and set S.M.A.R.T setting like temperature warning, shutdown at critical temperature. In addition, Shield feature helps you recover your deleted les and take snapshots of system areas. It also does media surface scanning and long term data integrity checking.
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Getting started
System Requirements
o Processor: Intel, PowerPC(G3 or later) o Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above o Memory: 1 GB RAM o Hard Disk: 50 MB of free space

Steps to install Stellar Drive ToolBox 2

1. Unpack StellarDriveToolbox.dmg.zip le. 2. After decompressing it, double click .dmg le. This will mount a virtual volume - StellarDriveToolbox. 3. Drag Stellar Drive ToolBox 2 le to Applications folder. 4. To launch the software, double click on StellarDriveToolbox 2 le in Applications folder. 5. This displays License Agreement. If user accepts the License Agreement, then the software is launched; otherwise it quits. Uninstall: Drag and drop Stellar Drive ToolBox 2 le from applications folder to trash

Starting Stellar ToolBox 2

Follow any of the methods listed below to run Stellar Drive ToolBox 2 o Double click on Stellar Drive ToolBox 2 le in Applications folder. o Double-click on Stellar Drive ToolBox 2 desktop shortcut (if it is created). o Click on Stellar Drive ToolBox 2 icon in the dock (if it is created).

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Points of interest

o Versatile software that lets you optimize, protect, maintain, manage, secure and sanitize hard drive or volume. o Ensure permanent erasure of free space, le or folder, internet activity, system traces, instant messaging and recent le history. o Optimizes volumes, les and free space to accelerate data transfer in hard drive. o Resize volume without losing any data o Generates Free Space in Specic Volumes. o Backup data by creating a clone or an image le of hard drive or volume. o Clean up unused large les, duplicate les, universal binaries and language les. o Provides summarized as well as detailed system information. o S.M.A.R.T settings monitor health status, temperature and vital parameters of the hard drive. o Set schedular to take le system snapshots. o Recovery of deleted les from the snapshot information le. o Advance user can rectify errors by editing the raw data in hard drives. o Secure les by Encrypting them. o Complete scan of the hard drive to nd bad blocks. o Prepare and Initialize drive for use on your Mac. o Check performance level of drives. o Comparison of your Macs performance with standard benchmark. o Verify volume le system errors and repair or rebuild the volume le system structure. o Compatible with Intel and PowerPC (G3 or later). o Supports OSX LION and older versions.

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Key Features
Speed Up
Speed Up: A cleanup & optimizing tool that helps you to improve the system performance signicantly by removing unwanted data & clutter in your Mac.

Drive Defrag Drive Clone

Improves your drive performance if you are experiencing slow system performance while reading or writing a large le. Helps you to create a replica of your hard-drive. You can also create bootable backup images and use them to restore your Mac in case of a hard drive crash.

Partition Manager File Wipe

Resize boot volume partition without any data loss and avoid lot of time & inconvenience. Additionally manage, create & delete disk partitions. Maintain privacy & security by securely erasing les. Wipe internet browser and messenger history.

Volume Repair

This module is a multi-purpose utility to sort out the le system permissions and related errors. It gives an option to rebuild le system structure where repairing is not possible.

Drive Initialize Shield

Initialize a new hard disk and create new volumes with an option to format it either in HFS+ or FAT32 le system. A pre-installed utility that enables you to recover accidently deleted les from the Mac hard drive.

Drive Performance Raw Data Editor Drive stats

A tool that enabled you to assess the performance of your Mac hard drive and volume by running a speed test. Modify Mac volume by editing raw data in Mac hard drives or volumes at sector level. This utility monitors Temprature, SMART status and general statistics of selected hard drive.

Surface Scan

This tool is used to scan the Mac hard drive block-by-block for bad blocks.

Data Encryptor
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Allows you to securely protect sensitive les by encrypting them with a password.
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Versions Comparison

A walkthrough to Whats New in version

o Bonus Utility: Free utility 'Data Encryptor' software [$29 value]. o Preferences Option: Set preferences on important modules to personalize tasks & activities. o Robust Speed UP Mac: Now, you can schedule the clean-up operations and regain the good old speed of your Mac with ease. o Updated Drive Defrag: You have now 5 options to defragment your hard drive Defrag is now more sensitive to drive health and automatically pauses when the drive heats up and restrats when the drive cools down. You can set it up to verify every block write operations.Defrag is also capable of defragmenting the metadata of the hard drive. o Improved Clone: Improved with focused features and friendly user interface o Updated Partition Manager: Partition manger now presents a simpler view of the drive layout and automatically decides on best and optimal methods of resiting partitions. It can also execute multiple tasks in a batch. Additionally, this utility now provides Hide & Reveal partition options to prevent the Mac partitions, against unwanted access. o Advance Drive Stats: You can now continuously monitor the hard drive temperature and other parameters. If the hard drive health is failing or getting over heated then it would automatically shut down your system. Additionally, you can also compare the performance of your system with some standard systems. o Supports latest OS X: Updated LION support.

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FAQs
How to optimize your Mac's performance?
Following are the ways to easily boost your Mac's performance: o Clean out all the unwanted data. o Run maintenance checks on your computer. In many cases a Mac slows down because they don't have their cache cleaned out. Run Stellar DriveToolBox application and click SpeedUP mac to clean system cache.

How SpeedUP Mac can be useful for a Mac user?

The purpose of SpeedUP Mac is to enhance the Mac hard drive performance that can be achieved by removing unwanted les & clutter. At the same time, by removing unnecessary les, you get lots of drive space that again helps you to improve the speed of your system.

One of the volumes in my secondary hard drive is showing full. Is it possible to remove unwanted les from the volume and how?
Yes, It is possible using SpeedUP Mac. Clean My Mac feature in SpeedUP Mac will enable you to select specic volume, even from secondary hard drive, and removes all unnecessary les. Step by Step procedure of Clean My Mac is explained in Clean My Mac option.

Partition Manager is showing multiple free space in my hard drive. Can I create a new partition merging all the free spaces?
Yes, using Partition Manager you can create new partition from multiple free space.

I have a 5 GB Mac partition, with 1 GB of data. I need to split the partition for creating a new one with 3 GB. Is it possible?

Yes, you can create a new partition from the space available in the existing partition with Stellar Partition Manager. You need to drag and reduce the volume to the desired size and use Resize option to complete the process. The generated free-space can be used to create the new partition.

Why do I need to Defragment my hard drive?

Fragmentation, to put it simply, occurs when les are split up into multiple parts and stored in different locations on the hard drive. Whe les are fragmented, a hard drive need MORE time to seek (move their point of access to a different location), read & write data. To optimize a Hard Drive Volume or fragmented les run Drive Defrag utility in Stellar Drive ToolBox.

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FAQs
What all things should be considered while cloning a drive or volume?
While cloning a drive remember two points: 1. The destination drive must be greater than or equal to the source drive. 2. You need to select the drive that does not contain OS.

How can I erase data permanently from Mac hard drive?

Files emptied out of trash can easily be recovered using any data recovery software as deletion will just remove the master le index on the hard drive. But the deleted les still lie on the hard drive. The only way to eliminate data or completely erase sensitive les index is to overwrite the disk space with new/junk data. Wipe in the Stellar Drive ToolBox 2 is one such powerful disk eraser utility designed to eliminate data le(s) in different directories with a stroke of a key shredding sensitive data beyond recovery.

Why are repairs needed for Mac volumes?

Common computer problems such as power outage, hard restarts and system crashes can corrupt your directory. You can easily repair your damaged volume using Volume Repair utility in Stellar Drive ToolBox. This will help it run smoother and x some performance issues.

What are the general approaches for hard drive maintenance?

The following are general recommendation for disk optimization. Developing a reasonable schedule for maintenance is recommended as it helps in keeping you Mac healthy. 1.Use SpeedUP tool to schedule regular clean up tasks and keep the Mac light and fast. 2.Defragment hard drive volumes regularly to optimize hard drive performance 3.Monitor hard drive health & temperature continuously 4.Backup your hard drive at regular intervals. 5.Verify & Correct volume permissions regularly and bring stability 6.Seurely Erase condential les and private information only with File Wipe

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Additional Resources

Drive ToolBox

Drive Clone

SpeedUP Mac

File Wipe

Drive Defrag

Partition Manager

www.macintosh-software.net/media/
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Facts at a glance
User Interface

Stellar Drive ToolBox has a simple and easy to use graphical user interface which helps the user to operate each utility easily and quickly. Main window displays all the tools and the green arrow helps you to move to each utility.

TRY BEFORE BUY

For the convenience of end user Drive ToolBox comes with a trial version that enables the user to experience the utility.

24 Hour Online Support

Providing help 24/5 by phone, web chat or email! Stellar Technical support ensures that you get the most out of your investment. Our team helps you in resolving any technical issues, purchasing, installing, conguring as well as upgrading your product.

30 days money back guarantee

We offer a 30 day money back guarantee on the purchase of every license that we sell. If you're not satised with your purchase, just request a refund by raising a ticket.

Contact information
Should you wish to know more about our product or would like to review; please contact us at:

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Stellar Drive ToolBox 2

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