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- Drive Repair and Data Recovery
- Optimization, Testing, and Maintenance
- Complete Single-click Diagnostics
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TechTool Pro delivers total diagnostics, drive repair and daily maintenance for your Mac.
Using TechTool Pro, you dont need to be an expert. Easy-to-use, single-click diagnostics scan critical CPU, memory, video hardware and more to identify impending problems to help you prevent costly repairs.
TechTool Pros hard drive tools are second to none. Create an emergency startup partition on a live hard drive with eDrive. SMART test your drives, and repair corrupt or damaged HFS+ volumes, including those in newer solid-state devices (SSDs).
Plus, TechTool Pro helps you recover deleted files and lost data, and scans for bad blocks, so if necessary, you can identify and restore the corrupted files within them from previous archives. TechTool Pro also clones exact duplicates of your drives for trouble-free recovery of your data and applications.
TechTool Pro provides ongoing maintenance too. With one-click, you can easily optimize your Mac to help keep it running at peak performance When monitoring Local Area Network activity, TechTool Pro will reveal Mac device availability and services delivered, so you or an IT administrator can instantly see the services accessed over your LAN via device name and IP address.
Count on TechTool Pro to provide total, continuous protection by monitoring your system, alerting you when aberrant behaviour is detected, and helping you maintain top performance for your Mac every day.
New Features:
TTP6 can now create an eDrive on the active drive (for Mac OS 10.5+) so no need to boot from TTP DVD or burn onto another drive to repair the active drive, this also allows downloads without the Mac OS sys frameworks (the download ws 750 MB (now its 55+ MB)
Volume cloning added to make exact duplicates of volumes for backups.
Added monitoring of network activity (using Bonjour), great for IT people so they can see what Macs over a network are running, sharing files, etc.
Product Description
Using TechTool Pro you don t need to be an expert. Easy-to-use single-click diagnostics scan critical CPU memory video hardware and more to identify impending problems to help you prevent costly repairs.TechTool Pro s hard drive tools are second to none. Create an emergency startup partition on a live hard drive with eDrive. SMART test your drives and repair corrupt or damaged HFS+ volumes including those in newer solid-state devices (SSD s).Plus TechTool Pro helps you recover deleted files and lost data and scans for bad blocks so if necessary you can identify and restore the corrupted files within them from previous archives. TechTool Pro also clones exact duplicates of your drives for trouble-free recovery of your data and applications.TechTool Pro provides ongoing maintenance too. With one-click you can easily optimize your Mac to help keep it running at peak performance When monitoring Local Area Network activity TechTool Pro will reveal Mac device availability and services delivered so you or an IT administrator can instantly see the services accessed over your LAN via device name and IP address.Count on TechTool Pro to provide total continuous protection by monitoring your system alerting you when aberrant behavior is detected and helping you maintain top performance for your Mac every day.Features Drive Repair and Data Recovery Optimization Testing and Maintenance Complete Single-click Diagnostics
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This was an upgrade to The TechTool deluxe which used to come free with Applecare.
It has two parts one a hardware checker which largely duplicates the free hardware check that Apple supplies and disk maintenance utilities.
After install and setup the program offers a full check up, be warned this takes a while (overnight if you have any attached disks). The advantage of TTP 6 hardware tests is that they take place online (no need to reboot and run from install disk), unlike the Apple one. There's also a surface scan which is handy, as it looks for bad blocks. So far TTP6 hasn't found any problems on either of my machines.
I've setup the eDrive to help boot up the machine in case of emergencies. This is a useful feature, somewhat similar to the OS X Lion feature.
There are also disk repair defragmentation and cloning functions, I've not had cause to use these yet. I'll report back when I have a problem.
In summary, this is a very wide ranging suite of tools, and as such good value for money (particularly if you upgrade from the Deluxe version). However I have had excellent results with Diskwarrior 4.0(Mac/Snow Leopard) for Directory repair and this would still be my favourite in case of emergency. I also use iDefrag for defragmenting drives and I've had good results with it. It does both defrag and compact and again I'll stick with this for the moment.
My other favourite tool is SuperDuper which clones drives and I've had years of good service from.
In short if you have only one immediate need you might be better buying the single products above but if cost is a problem or you need a lot of tools together TechTool Pro is a good solution.
It has two parts one a hardware checker which largely duplicates the free hardware check that Apple supplies and disk maintenance utilities.
After install and setup the program offers a full check up, be warned this takes a while (overnight if you have any attached disks). The advantage of TTP 6 hardware tests is that they take place online (no need to reboot and run from install disk), unlike the Apple one. There's also a surface scan which is handy, as it looks for bad blocks. So far TTP6 hasn't found any problems on either of my machines.
I've setup the eDrive to help boot up the machine in case of emergencies. This is a useful feature, somewhat similar to the OS X Lion feature.
There are also disk repair defragmentation and cloning functions, I've not had cause to use these yet. I'll report back when I have a problem.
In summary, this is a very wide ranging suite of tools, and as such good value for money (particularly if you upgrade from the Deluxe version). However I have had excellent results with Diskwarrior 4.0(Mac/Snow Leopard) for Directory repair and this would still be my favourite in case of emergency. I also use iDefrag for defragmenting drives and I've had good results with it. It does both defrag and compact and again I'll stick with this for the moment.
My other favourite tool is SuperDuper which clones drives and I've had years of good service from.
In short if you have only one immediate need you might be better buying the single products above but if cost is a problem or you need a lot of tools together TechTool Pro is a good solution.
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3 reviews
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
sit this one out
4 May 2011
I have used TechTool for many years and generally feel it has been an outstanding product. It has saved my hide on numerous occasions. BUT, TechTool 6 (version 6.0.1) has corrupted two computers for me, requiring reformatting and starting over from system install. Highly recommend sitting on the sidelines for version updates.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
still not easy to use
29 April 2011
After 6 versions, you'd think they would have made their product easy to use. But it's not.
I ran a check on File Structure. It said there were numerous errors and listed all of them but there was no button and no menu option to choose for repairing those errors. Why wouldn't they have a big red Repair button on the screen?
That was in the Test section. I went to the Tools section hoping there would be something there to fix the file structure, but the only tool there that had "file" in its name was "file optimization" which is not what I need. So now I know I've got a problem but the software gives no clue on how to fit it.
Then I tried to create an "eDrive" but now after twice clicking on the "Create eDrive" button, it says an error occurred and to try again. It doesn't say what kind of error or what needs to be done, just "try again." I imagine that no matter how many more times I try, I'll keep getting the same message.
If you want an easy, intuitive way to maintain your computer, this software is not it.
I ran a check on File Structure. It said there were numerous errors and listed all of them but there was no button and no menu option to choose for repairing those errors. Why wouldn't they have a big red Repair button on the screen?
That was in the Test section. I went to the Tools section hoping there would be something there to fix the file structure, but the only tool there that had "file" in its name was "file optimization" which is not what I need. So now I know I've got a problem but the software gives no clue on how to fit it.
Then I tried to create an "eDrive" but now after twice clicking on the "Create eDrive" button, it says an error occurred and to try again. It doesn't say what kind of error or what needs to be done, just "try again." I imagine that no matter how many more times I try, I'll keep getting the same message.
If you want an easy, intuitive way to maintain your computer, this software is not it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Saved Me Hundreds of Dollars
18 Mar 2012
Once your hard drive is failing, it may be too late to do anything about it and then it crashes and you just forgot to back up your work this month. However, this wonderful software tool alerts you when things are starting to go wrong with your hard drives and ALL the hardware and files on your Mac. It will even send you an email. It is the same tool the Mac repair shops use and charge you $95. per hour to diagnose and/or install something like a new DVD drive. If they have to do data recovery and cloning onto new drives it's $200-300. and up.
I was lazy about my flaky DVD drive, so I had no way to boot from a DVD and optimize or fix the file structures on my boot drive for my G5 PPC. I couldn't even back up using Retrospect. However, my old version of TechTools 4 alerted me that things were starting to go bad. So I backed-up important files onto thumb and firewire drives.
I just got a new Superdrive here on Amazon, made a diagnostic boot DVD using this software (upgraded from Version 4 to 6) and I can completely analyze all my drives, files and hardware. Whew... I can even stave off the eventual crash a while by keeping up with my file directories and optimization. Drives ALL eventually DO fail, since like tires, they DO wear out. It's just a matter of how unexpected and thus disastrous it will be.
Your dentist tells you to floss and if you don't, you know what may happen. With a computer like mine where I make half my yearly income, loosing a hard drive unexpectedly can cost me a lot of work and even a client. Get this tool, set it up to alert you when indications are not good and do your monthly file maintenance, optimization and then back-up. You will not be sorry. This tool has basically alerted me to get ready to clone my boot drive in the next weeks and replace two drives (boot drive and storage drive) since in about 4 years of daily heavy use, they're showing signs of wear (bad blocks and speed issues).
Get this software. It works for PPC or Intel Macs. It's easy to use. You'll not be sorry.
I was lazy about my flaky DVD drive, so I had no way to boot from a DVD and optimize or fix the file structures on my boot drive for my G5 PPC. I couldn't even back up using Retrospect. However, my old version of TechTools 4 alerted me that things were starting to go bad. So I backed-up important files onto thumb and firewire drives.
I just got a new Superdrive here on Amazon, made a diagnostic boot DVD using this software (upgraded from Version 4 to 6) and I can completely analyze all my drives, files and hardware. Whew... I can even stave off the eventual crash a while by keeping up with my file directories and optimization. Drives ALL eventually DO fail, since like tires, they DO wear out. It's just a matter of how unexpected and thus disastrous it will be.
Your dentist tells you to floss and if you don't, you know what may happen. With a computer like mine where I make half my yearly income, loosing a hard drive unexpectedly can cost me a lot of work and even a client. Get this tool, set it up to alert you when indications are not good and do your monthly file maintenance, optimization and then back-up. You will not be sorry. This tool has basically alerted me to get ready to clone my boot drive in the next weeks and replace two drives (boot drive and storage drive) since in about 4 years of daily heavy use, they're showing signs of wear (bad blocks and speed issues).
Get this software. It works for PPC or Intel Macs. It's easy to use. You'll not be sorry.
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