These details might seem like minutiae to others, but I look at the diagnosis process similar to getting blood drawn at the doctor's office during a checkup. If there's something wrong, it's definitely going to tell you, which is the purpose of the report, but it feels lacking because it doesn't display any other information or include a 'pass' mark for the items it checked for. While the reports do an admirable job of looking Apple-quality, aside from spotting any errors during a featured check, they display little useful information to really go on. TechTool has a dedicated Reports section where the results of each scan, test, and tool are listed for later review ( Figure H).įigure H TechTool has a dedicated Reports section. What would a diagnostics app be without Reports? Not very useful, I would imagine. There are about a dozen tools in total, offering a wide range of uses-some more mainstream and critically used, while others are limited in range or frequency of use-but they're all included in the price of admission, without the need to run multiple apps, which definitely makes it easier to manage. The Data Recovery option isn't quite as beefy as some of the other options available out there for Mac, but the sheer inclusion of this feature is boon to IT for the casual 'missing document' or 'I accidentally deleted the file' responses received by the end users you support.Īdditional tools, such as Wipe Date-this is used to securely erase a storage device to sanitize the contents prior to disposing or repurposing it to another user-are often under utilized, but in this day and age of security taking a front row seat, you can never be too careful. In a pinch, volume cloning allows for an exact bit-for-bit duplicate of the boot partition or drive to be created and copied to another partition or drive, so as to create a working, bootable backup-or in the event that the HDD/SSD is being upgraded. Volume or Disk Image cloning is yet another great feature included in this app.

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