![]() That said, Norton SystemWorks v2.0 includes AlSoft DiskWarrior Recovery Edition that will work on Mac OS 8/9/X. Major developers have been encouraged to develop exclusively for Mac OS X, and that's what all of them are doing. Norton Personal Firewall and Norton Internet Security have a number of new features for OS X, including a stealth mode (firewall), ad blocking (Internet Security), and confidential information protection (Internet Security). Norton AntiVirus v8.0 now has a native AutoProtect. This capability is unique to the platform. This feature records information in native Mac OS X that enables both UnErase and Volume Recover to recover data or volumes. Perhaps the most unheralded new benefit in Norton Utilities for Macintosh v7 is the automatic protection provided by FileSaver. In addition to being able to repair, optimize and recover OS 8/9/Xdisks from bootable CD, Norton SystemWorks also has AlSoft DiskWarrior RE for OS 8/9/X. ![]() No Mac utility product has more features for Mac OS X, either running natively from an OS X disk and running from bootable CD. In Norton Utilities, we've built OS X native versions of Norton Disk Doctor, UnErase and FileSaver. Re: Advantage of upgrading? In our five new product releases for Macintosh, we've enabled the majority of our product line benefits to run native in Mac OS X. It is perfectly OK for users to boot from the OS 9 CD and repair their OS X drives. ![]() We have chosen to keep OS 9 on our bootable CDs because it provides the broadest set of functionality to the broadest number of users. In addition to our ability to fix major and minor problems from bootable CD, Norton Disk Doctor can diagnose problems and fix minor issues, more than any other product running natively on Mac OS X. Live Disk Repair Norton Disk Doctor does not perform major repairs on a live hard disk in Mac OS X. The latest Disk Doctor allows us to check and repair the usual Volume Header problems and similar glitches without resorting to a restart and fsck or OS 9 versions of Disk Doctor."īill Eccles found that Norton Utilities 7 fixed a problem with his VST 30GB SmartDisk that neither Disk Utility nor DiskWarrior could fix. 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. 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."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. ![]() 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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