I used to be the resident hardware hacker on the Lab with Leo Laporte show that aired in Canada and Australia, and while combing through some of my segments I stumbled on something I did last year that just saved my MacBook. DasBoot allows you to take any external storage device, like an old iPod, and turn it into a bootable diagnostic toolkit. Best of all, it’s 100% free.

Do you have a shiny new flash drive, or multi use storage device in your pocket ? Now you can turn it into a Mac OS X diagnostic, repair, and maintenance tool. DasBoot allows you to take any third party boot CD (such as those shipped by SubRosaSoft.com Inc, Prosoft Engineering Inc, Alsoft Inc, or Micromat Inc) and quickly create a bootable diagnostic device that contains any of your own utilities you may wish to install.

Check out the attached video of me demoing the software on an episode of the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show.

DasBoot – Turn An Old iPod Into A Bootable Toolkit originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2008/08/29. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.

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