TechTool Protogo
4.0.5
TechTool Protogo
4.0.5Turn your USB or Firewire device into a bootable diagnostic toolkit.
Overview
Note: TechTool Protogo is no longer a standalone product, but has been included in TechTool Pro.
TechTool Protogo easily lets you turn your USB or Firewire device into a bootable, diagnostics toolkit for Mac.
- You can take it with you. Using Protogo, you can easily turn a USB or FireWire device, such as an iPod, flash drive, compact hard drive, or SD Card, into a powerful toolkit to troubleshoot all of the Macs in your life. Now you can boot, run diagnostics and perform drive repair on multiple Macs, both Intel and PPC, from a single, portable device as small as a flash drive. Just drop it into your pocket, take it anywhere. How convenient.
- Plug and play redefined. Plug in a flash drive or retired iPod to help maintain or repair your Mac. With Protogo and just a few clicks, you can configure a bootable device to maintain and monitor your Macs for impending problems. You can create your own custom profiles too, and your device will run software faster than from a DVD. Once you see how well that works, you'll protect all your Macs with Protogo. It's that easy.
- Powered by TechTool Pro. Your Protogo profiles include TechTool Pro to diagnose hardware issues, repair drives, fix disk permissions, clone volumes, backup your Recovery HD to another device, and a lot more. Plus you can add other utilities, like anti-virus, to complement your profiles and help you prevent costly repairs in the future. What's more, you can reconfigure your device profiles anytime you need. That's versatility.
What's new in TechTool Protogo
Version 4.0.5:
- Now includes TechTool Pro 7.0.6.
- Other enhancements and fixes.
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$129.99
App requirements:
- Intel 64
- Intel 32
- Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later
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9 TechTool Protogo Reviews
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An additional consideration for anyone doing this is to make a new unaltered admin account and make the USB stick from that. My first attempt was a Basic Profile while logged into my main account, and all the startup items, etc came over, some not working because the app referred to did not get copied in the process, so lots of error messages on startup.
Not blaming MM. Next time I try it I'm going to do it from a guest account that I make Admin just while I do this, so the USB disk is really Basic.
I have two Western Digital My Passport for Mac USB 3 drives that are small enough to drop in a shirt pocket. While they are larger than a thumb drive they have far more storage capacity as well; you can partition them however you want and install whatever you want with no serious space limitations.
When the Protogo was first developed external hard drives were larger and less portable than they are today. And, given the price of flash memory, they are still far less expensive per gigabyte of storage than a thumb drive. Though you can get these small external drives with an SSD - if you can afford it. If find USB 3 with an HDD to be fast enough in most cases.
One other advantage of an external hard drive - you are far less likely to walk away and forget them than you are with a thumb drive plugged into the back of a computer.