[DM-MUG] Best Utility?

[Victoria L. Herring]

At 6:31 PM -0600 11/29/04, Bailey Ford wrote:
>Comparing Disk Warrior (DW) and Tech Tool Pro (TTP) is a little like 
>comparing apples and oranges. DW does one job, very very well. It 
>creates the catalog file of a given disk. This is the file that 
>tells the computer where all the files are located on the drive and 
>defines the volume parameters (like how big the partition is and if 
>it is bootable, etc.) TTP on the other hand, performs a wide array 
>of tests on hardware and disks and files. It also has a routine to 
>repair the catalog information. TTP looks at the catalog file to 
>make sure it is well formed and corrects the errors that it sees. DW 
>looks at all the files and creates a new, optimized catalog to 
>describe those files. So, even for the same task, the two programs 
>use a different technique.
>
>My take is that DW does a superb job - much better than anything 
>else for catalog problems. TTP is good too, but I would use it for 
>defragging, and testing hardware (like RAM chips). If I were looking 
>at a sick mac and wanted to get it working, I'd much rather have DW 
>than TTP.
>
>YMMV.

In the Applecare boxes comes a CD that includes TechTool on it = I 
take it that is not Pro but still useful to do some diagnostic and 
other fixes???
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