Post by: Highmac on July 22, 2003, 02:27:33 AM
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Unlike some other drive repair utilities, DiskWarrior doesn't seek to patch up errors on a hard drive. Repairing a drive by patching the problems can easily lead to more problems being introduced and ending up doing even more damage. Quite a few people have had some experience running a drive repair utility only to find that it gives up halfway through the process having trashed their drive as it tried to effect repairs. Some utilities can effectively end up tying themselves in knots as they attempt to repair a hard drive.
Now, the laws of libel being what they are, these other utilities are not named. However, I've always used Norton and now worry it could be one of them (I'm running OS9.1 and the Norton is what came with the iMac) - or is this writer overstating the case?
As mentioned before, I'm no techie, so comments from those with deeper knowledge of the subject would be welcomed. Should I stick with Norton? Just because I haven't had problems so far.....
Post by: Bill on July 22, 2003, 02:39:06 AM
Now if you'll excuse me .... Zzzzzzzz <gr>
Post by: kelly on July 22, 2003, 08:18:04 AM
For 9.x I think Norton is fine. Just have a new enough Version to work well.
For OS X I'm not so sure Norton has that down yet.
Post by: gmann on July 22, 2003, 12:35:59 PM
Just my experience.
Post by: ljocampo on July 22, 2003, 03:12:41 PM
When I was using OS 9.x, I thought highly of Norton Utilities. I used it religiously and it never failed me. Gosh, that seems like such a long time ago! Now, I have lived through all the itterations of OS X, and I assure you that Norton will screw you under OS X. So if you're going to stay with OS 9.x, Norton works just fine, but don't use it on an OS X partition or drive until they learn UNIX at Symantec.
Post by: Highmac on July 22, 2003, 04:30:48 PM
Certainly, I'm more tempted now X seems to be drawing fewer moans from its users. Perhaps Santa will bring it at Christmas (only just over five months away now!)
Post by: Toad on July 22, 2003, 09:33:44 PM
Post by: FLASH1296 on July 23, 2003, 03:22:50 PM
Time to switch to SystemWorks3.0 but be aware that Disk warrior is a BETTER application and that Optomizing under OS X is a thoroughgoing waste of time.
Post by: Epaminondas on July 23, 2003, 04:40:21 PM
I have been successfully running Norton since MacOS 7.1. Yes, various manifestations of Norton can eat your hard disk (version 3.0 was particularly notorious). Early versions of any Norton are suspect - always wait until the early adopters have fried their hard drives and Norton gets updated a few times before you use the final updated version of that particular Norton series. Later versions in a Norton series tend to be pretty solid.
Please note that it is much more important to have a good data backup strategy than it is to have a good disk utility strategy.
That said, a good disk utility strategy might go something like this:
(1) Backup first. Really.
(2) Run Disk Warrior prior to any other disk utilities. Then run other disk utilities to your heart's content - TechTool Pro is good.
(3) Run Norton 6.03 (Norton 6.03 Update available here) on your machine, if you like.
And you should be fine.
Season the above with rebuilding your desktop, zapping the PRAM, discarding certain preferences that tend to get corrupted, and running an antiviral routine and you should be even finer.
I just do the above every month or so when the new anti-viral definitions come out. Keeps the machines ship shape and Bristol fashion.
Oh - don't forget to back-up. ;-)
Epaminondas