Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Techtool Pro has been my favorite repair utility for many years. Apple even has given it away with Applecare.
However, in the past years there have been reports of crashes and disk not mounting after TTPro. I eventually put it second to last on my list:
1. Apple Disk Utilty
2.Diskwarrior
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. Techtool Pro
10. Norton Utilities.
However, in recovering an impossibly crashed Lacie drive, TTPro proved its worth beyond all measure, so gfor that rare case, this one software, recovered sufficient of my data that the drives could be recovered by Norton, using all the tricks I could muster.
Still, for general use, TTPro has worried me.
Since July, TTPro is up to 4.5 and now to 4.5.1 and is worth us relooking at.
Rurther there is, Protege, a really interesting Gizmo, a self booting USB memory drive with the repair software on board and more.
"TechTool Protege is a compact, bootable diagnostic and repair tool. It contains the full-featured Macintosh troubleshooting program TechTool Pro, Micromat's disk partitioning program DiskStudio, as well as several other utilities on a compact, one gigabyte FireWire flash drive. Its tiny size makes it easy to carry at all times so that a user can test and repair Macintosh computers whenever the need should arise. TechTool Protege is able to:
Diagnose Macintosh hardware
Diagnose and repair hard drive problems
Optimize and defragment hard drive volumes
Rebuild volume directories
Recover data from damaged volumes
Repartition hard drives without losing data
And other diagnostic functionsMicromat used to be Apple's best repair utility. In the past several years, use became under attack by reports of crashes."
"Price and Availability
TechTool Protege and DiskStudio can be ordered through select dealers and resellers worldwide or directly from Micromat, Inc. The retail price for TechTool Protege is $229. DiskStudio is $49. Current owners of TechTool Protege may purchase the TechTool Protege CD Update from Micromat for $25. Current owners of DiskStudio may purchase a DVD upgrade for the same price."http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=30&Itemid=85
So is it worthwhile and safe to use?
I'd love to hear as many reports as possible since we really need utilities.
Asher
However, in the past years there have been reports of crashes and disk not mounting after TTPro. I eventually put it second to last on my list:
1. Apple Disk Utilty
2.Diskwarrior
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. Techtool Pro
10. Norton Utilities.
However, in recovering an impossibly crashed Lacie drive, TTPro proved its worth beyond all measure, so gfor that rare case, this one software, recovered sufficient of my data that the drives could be recovered by Norton, using all the tricks I could muster.
Still, for general use, TTPro has worried me.
Since July, TTPro is up to 4.5 and now to 4.5.1 and is worth us relooking at.
Rurther there is, Protege, a really interesting Gizmo, a self booting USB memory drive with the repair software on board and more.
"TechTool Protege is a compact, bootable diagnostic and repair tool. It contains the full-featured Macintosh troubleshooting program TechTool Pro, Micromat's disk partitioning program DiskStudio, as well as several other utilities on a compact, one gigabyte FireWire flash drive. Its tiny size makes it easy to carry at all times so that a user can test and repair Macintosh computers whenever the need should arise. TechTool Protege is able to:
Diagnose Macintosh hardware
Diagnose and repair hard drive problems
Optimize and defragment hard drive volumes
Rebuild volume directories
Recover data from damaged volumes
Repartition hard drives without losing data
And other diagnostic functionsMicromat used to be Apple's best repair utility. In the past several years, use became under attack by reports of crashes."
"Price and Availability
TechTool Protege and DiskStudio can be ordered through select dealers and resellers worldwide or directly from Micromat, Inc. The retail price for TechTool Protege is $229. DiskStudio is $49. Current owners of TechTool Protege may purchase the TechTool Protege CD Update from Micromat for $25. Current owners of DiskStudio may purchase a DVD upgrade for the same price."http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=30&Itemid=85
So is it worthwhile and safe to use?
I'd love to hear as many reports as possible since we really need utilities.
Asher