Existing users, 
TechTool Pro
hardware/software diagnostic tool
Version: 4.6.2
Latest version took my hard drive down
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: ccedric Monday, October 03 2005 @ 09:43 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
I've used the product for years, but this time it did irreversible damage to the disk directories. I had to re-install the operating system and overwrite all data. It looked like it was going to work until I tried restarting the computer after tech tools pro had finished its work––it was down in flames. Disk Warrior was unable to resurrect the drive. If you're going to play, make sure everything is back up before "optimizing" the computer.
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Latest version took my hard drive down - macmaths
I think I recall reading somewhere that you're not supposed to do an optimization while booted from the CD (not saying that you did), only while booted from the eDrive or while booted from another drive or partition.Anyway, if you have another drive or large enough partition, rather than optimize with a defragging utility like TTP, buy a $20.00 license to SuperDuper!, clone your volume to another drive, boot from the clone and clone it back. This will defrag your drive, and you'll have a bootable backup as well.
I highly recommend SuperDuper!
Friday, October 14 2005 @ 08:10 PM PDT
Same here. - alphasubzero949
I had TTP kill my hard drive twice during the volume structure "optimization."DiskWarrior couldn't do anything for me.
Fortunately, I had backups.
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Friday, October 14 2005 @ 12:47 PM PDT