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New Drive Power: TechTool Protege

compact, bootable diagnostic and repair tool

Micromat has announced TechTool Protege -- a compact, bootable diagnostic and repair tool. It contains the full-featured Macintosh troubleshooting program TechTool Pro, Micromat's disk partitioning program DiskStudio, as well as several other utilities on a compact, one gigabyte FireWire flash drive. Its tiny size makes it easy to carry at all times so that one can test and repair Macintosh computers whenever the need arises. TechTool Protege is extremely durable since it is a solid state device. Unlike a hard drive, it has no moving parts and is not affected by being bumped or dropped. Unlike a CD, it contains ample space to install other programs, is durable, and extremely fast.

According to Christian Pickman, project manager for TechTool Protege,
      "The beauty of TechTool Protege is that multiple programs reside on a single bootable device. Unlike CDs, the programs and operating system can easily be updated on a regular basis. Moreover, the boot time is much faster than a CD. The user can simply pull TechTool Protege out of their pocket, boot the computer with it, and begin work in a matter of seconds."

He notes that this is not currently possible with a USB device, since the Macintosh cannot boot from USB under Mac OS X.

TechTool Protege is able to:

* Diagnose Macintosh hardware
* Diagnose and repair hard drive problems
* Optimize and defragment hard drive volumes
* Rebuild volume directories
* Recover data from damaged volumes
* Repartition hard drives without losing data
* And other diagnostic functiions

Price and AvailabilityTechTool Protege is available today and will be shown at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco next week. It can be ordered through select dealers and resellers worldwide or directly from Micromat, Inc. The suggested retail price is $229.00. For further information, please visit www.micromat.com

About Micromat Inc. - Micromat pioneered the Macintosh diagnostic software market in 1990 by introducing the very first commercially available diagnostic program, MacEKG. Since then, Micromat has helped millions of Macintosh users repair their computers, retrieve lost data and keep their systems running their best.

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