![]() Mark Tennent adds: "As long-term users of Norton Tools we have been pleased with the new version of SystemWorks. They have both been working as advertised and I have no complaints." He writes: "I installed SystemWorks and Firewall both in my iMac DV400 running 10.1.3 ,with 320 MB RAM, without any problems whatsoever. Dan Wellen's note was typical of many we received. Success stories Not everyone is having trouble, however. It appears the program chokes on the thousands of files involved in any OS X installation." Others have confirmed this. Even if you are running Mac OS X, "the Norton 7 CD is required for most repairs and uses OS 9.2 and is therefore dependent on Norton 6.0.3, which can fix both OS 9 and X." And, as we have commented here before, if you are running Mac OS 9, the upgrade does not use any of the 7.0 software.ĭisk Doctor memory requirements in OS 9 Ted Grigg writes: "Booting in OS 9 from a removable or an external HD allows DD and Speed Disk to run, only if I allocate about 10 times the default memory to both programs. Out of curiosity, I booted to OS 9 on that same secondary drive and ran Disk Doctor 6.03 from there and it found the same 'major' problem and fixed it.along with many other problems that 7 didn't even address."Īdvantage of upgrading? Michiel Houtman comments that, if you expect your primary use of Norton Disk Doctor to be for repairing disks from a bootable CD, there appears to be little reason to upgrade. It couldn't repair the problem, and seemed to end its diagnosis there. ![]() He writes: "While running Norton Disk Doctor 7.0 on my primary System Drive it found a 'major' boot block error that it (of course) could not repair while I was using that System Drive, so I installed Norton Utilities 7.0 on my secondary System Drive (an actual second physical drive) and ran Disk Doctor from there. The same individually packaged non-SystemWorks OS 9.x versions of Norton Utilities and Norton AntiVirus don't seem to exhibit these kinds of problems." Another user points out that the installer does not allow a partial install of just Norton Utilities 7, the choice is all or nothing.ĭisk Doctor more effective running under OS 9? This comment from Sean McNeely suggests that Norton Disk Doctor is more reliable under OS 9. The install went OK, but Norton AntiVirus did not run without abruptly quitting during a scan. SystemWorks the cause of instability? A number of users have noted that SystemWorks installs a number of kernel extensions and other support files, and although its impossible for us to conclude, based on the reports we have seen, that these are the source of the problems, Bill Cavanaugh makes an interesting observation: "I recently bought the SystemWorks 2.0 upgrade and installed it on my G4/400.
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