Existing users, 
Symantec Norton SystemWorks
System diagnostic & repair
Version: 3.0
NSW 3.0
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Aldridge Thursday, September 04 2003 @ 08:16 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
I've been a user of Norton for years now and it seems to work for me. I also use Diskwarrior occasionally. Neither has ever hosed up my system any made it any worst than not running it. I am surprised at all the problems others are having but just wanted to pass on my experiences which have been positive. I think each product used in tandem work as adverstised, IMHO. Both are worth having, as part of your trouble-shooting toolkit.
NSW 3.0 -
I'm not too sure about this .... I ran Norton Utilities on a 30GB drive that Disk Warrior had just pronounced clean. Norton Utilities found ('Major') errors in the boot blocks (error 16,1,1); said the system name was bad (error 16,1,2); and that the event queue size was bad (error 16,1,11), plus variuos other allocation (et al) errors. So I let Norton fix it. I re-booted onto my hard drive and then started to have problems ... ID2 was quitting on launching ... several files were pronounced (by their applications) as 'damaged...', things were starting not to work as they should...So I booted from CD and ran DiskWarrior again - it found errors in boot blocks, allocation pointers, lots of things ... and it said that a large portion of data couldn't be identified and would be put in a 'recovered' folder.
I let DW replace the directory and re-booted - the drive worked fine again.
Later I booted from CD and ran Norton Utilities again, it found the same errors it found the first time (which it was 'supposed' to have fixed... (Not!).
Maybe it just comes down to which utility you trust the most (although it shouldn't, should it?...) and I've never had a problem with (nor heard any bad report) on DW, but I would be very careful with this utility ... you may lose data big style ... maybe wait till TTPro 4 comes out....
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Friday, September 05 2003 @ 02:12 PM PDT