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TechTool Pro helps recover, repair, and optimize your hard disk.

TechTool Pro 4 now features a suite of S.M.A.R.T tests (Self Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology). Most modern hard drives now support this industry standard that employs predictive diagnostics and analysis to help foresee a drive failure BEFORE it happens. TechTool Pro 4's SMART test allows you to automatically monitor this vital data and be forewarned of impending danger to your data, allowing you to back up critical information before disaster strikes.

The eDrive feature allows you to create an invisible emergency volume from your existing drive. This new partition is created WITHOUT the need to reformat your current drive and allows you to store a copy of your system, a copy of TechTool Pro and even allows you to make room for other utilities. If you ever have trouble with your main drive, simply restart your computer and your system will start from your Emergency Drive giving you immediate access to the utilities you'll need to resurrect your main drive. Now there's no more need for a bootable CD or ancillary hard drive for system drive repair or maintenance.

With the power of Mac OS X, TechTool Pro 4 is now the fastest version of the program we've ever made. With Mac OS X's native multitasking capability, TechTool Pro 4 can now run its full battery of tests simultaneously. This means that repair and maintenance chores that once took minutes will only take seconds.

TechTool Pro 4 now offers a new optimization feature for your Mac OS X drive. The Mac OS X system contains thousands of files that fragment quickly. TechTool Pro 4 lets you quickly and safely unfragment these and other files so your system runs reliably at its peak.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.6.1:
  • Full Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatibility.
  • Improvements to Volume Structure routines.
  • eDrive volume will now be a 10GB partition required by Mac OS X 10.5.
  • Fixed eDrive volume and Mac OS X 10.5 installation issue.
  • Other minor changes and feature enhancements.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, TechTool Pro 4.5.6 or later. You can use this updater on a Protege or Protogo installation.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Micromat, Inc.
Downloads:556,627
  - Version d/l:47,373
Utilities:System
License:Updater
Date:29 Nov 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$98.00
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TechTool Pro User Reviews (301 posts)Write A Review
Apr 23 2008

SMTIPS  I haven't had any trouble with this, except that on my G4 the eDrive was invisible and on my dual G5 it's not. It works, it works good and I like the suites.

Comment on Diskwarrior: I have used DW for years and I find it to be one of the best tools available. TT is also. To be honest I've never had a serious HD crash where I had to really USE any of the recovery stuff on these. DW was a dream on OS 9. But my problem with DW now is well...it takes like TEN OR FIFTEEN MINUTES to boot from the damn disk! Most of the people I know are maddened about this also and they just haven't seemed to get it right...so imho DW is losing ground because of that, and because of the lack of versatility compared to TechTool. I like TT.

My 2¢.  (Version 4.6.1)

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Mar 17 2008

POSSIBLE CUSTOMER  I was going to purchase your product until I read others comments, $25 for a DVD upgrade, poor tech.... No thank you  (Version 4.6.1)

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Feb 24 2008
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JGUY80  This program is slipping downhill. The support isn't what it used to be. To TVPNYC, I agree, during optimization, it adds fragments. I told the TechTool Tech this and got this response. http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=42&func=view&id=5856&catid=6

This program actually crashed my hard drive, to where I couldn't boot my Mac up.  (Version 4.6.1)

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Feb 15 2008

MOSH  Wanted to upgrade Techtool to Leopard compatibility

Not only do I have to pay $25 but a whopping $15 to ship an unnecessary disk version to the UK. Techtool agents in the UK are unable to provide the update!! Why?

Very short sighted Techtool, especially as the utility is mediocre. Many of us Maci's abandoned Norton due to customer care indifference. Your turn will come!   (Version 4.6.1)

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