on 21/01/04 21:21, gf sciacca at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I also suspect that archive and install won't work, so I'm going ahead > with a clean install, after backing up the book in FireWire mode > > My question to the list now is (perhaps I should have changed the > subject?): > I've read many bad accounts about Norton Utilities, is it really that bad? > I have used regularly the antivirus and defrag on my powerbook for over a > year now and occasionally the doctor and this is really the first time it > messes up (it was Utilities 6.0.3 for OS 9) and it messed up a freshely > set-up partition with no fancy installs on it (FileSaver started already > to report problems even before I could switch it off as I do usually right > after a fresh install). I'd like to hear some opinions and what are the > possible alternative for disc maintenance and repair? > > Many speak well of Disk Warrior, but the few times I ran it to correct > problems, it would always report problems, tell me they were corrected, > only to report and correct the same problems again if I launched it right > after it finished its first repair. Disk Warrior has never corrected a > problem for me (and never messed up), Norton yes (corrected + messed)
Well, I think that your main problem is that you used version 6.0.3 which is, according to the above, for OS 9. If that version was specifically written for OS 9, then it is quite possible (I don't know for sure since I've never used it, and I'm doing fine, thank you) that it couldn't understand some stuff from the OS X partition, like symbolic links. You could maybe try to use a version for OS X, but, again, I have been running OS X on 2 different computers since the original OS X public beta back in 2001 and never had any problems that I couldn't fix without the tools I had, i.e. OS X Disk Utility. Even if I had serious problems that Disk Utility could not fix, I wouldn't trust any utility to fix them; I would just backup my stuff, then do a format and re-install. That's why I have 3 partitions on my Pismo: one for the OS X system disk, one for OS 9 system disk and a last one for all the remaining stuff. Everything I install that doesn't require to be in /Applications or /Applications/Utilities, or on the system disk in general, I put on the 3rd partition. So, in the event that something goes really wrong, I usually only have to backup my home directory on an external firewire disk, reformat and reinstall OS X. That way, I'm always sure that everything in the system is clean. I had to do that maybe 2 or 3 times since I've been running OS X, and that is on 2 different computers, my PowerBook Pismo and my Blue & White G4... Just my $0.02... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
