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From: ralph@cm.cf.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
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Subject: Re: HELP! Norton Util & System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.090023.3050@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Apr 91 09:00:23 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.184657.11559@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
(Race Bannon) writes:
>TAS120@psuvm.psu.edu (Todd Safra) writes:
>
>>After using system 7.0 my hard drive was modified to work with the nwe system
>>software.  After trying to run  norton utilites I got the message, Norton
util
>>unable to examine this disk, it has been used with system 7.0 ...
[Stuff Deleted]
>
>>                                            Todd
>
>Norton 1.0 DOES NOT and WILL NOT work.  The reason Apple doesn't release
>System software to the general public until its finished is to keep it out
>of the hands of whiners like you.
>
>When Sys7 is officially released, there will be a version of Norton that works
>with it.  Until then, you'll have to live without it.  Do you realize that if
>you HAD tricked Norton into running on your modified disk, you would have 
>probably lost everything?  The directory structure is completely different.

This last remark is UTTER rubbish. The directory structure is different, but
not COMPLETELY different. If when you get the dialog about Norton not working
with System 7, instead of clicking OK, you option-click ok, Norton will
continue, apparently doing a "best effort" at repair. (This is from my own
experience - NOT as told to me by Norton). I have in fact used this
successfully to fix a disk which one of the beta releases of 7.0 had munged,
at least to the point of being able to recover the files I had been working on
since my last backup. Of course, you did read and act on the stuff in the beta
docs about backing up your data, didn't you?....:-)

Ralph