Symantec officials have confirmed to MacFixIt that it will remove a limitation in Norton Utilities 8.0 that disallows scanning or repair of disks with too many files. The software currently provides ...

Of all these disk repair utilities, only Norton Disk Doctor claims to check partition maps, and indeed it was the only one to detect the problem, although even it proved incapable of fixing the ...

A few months ago in TidBITS I compared the various disk repair programs then available for Mac OS X: Norton Utilities 8.0 ($100), DiskWarrior 3.0 ($80), Drive 10 1.1.4 ($70), Disk Guardian 2.2 ($70), ...

An article in eMediaweekly reported that the now shipping version of Norton Utilities for Macintosh 4.0 is not "complete." In particular: "A 'lite' and unsupported version of Norton Disk Editor will ...

Although Norton Utilities is stylish and works well, you’re spending money for tools already provided with Windows or available for free elsewhere. These days, the real question with paid optimization ...

Norton Speed Disk is available only as part of Norton SystemWorks 2003 ($69.95 direct). Though Speed Disk is not speedy—it took 13 hours to defrag our test hard drive—it handled all test files, ...

Data loss is not something that happens only to other people. Misadventure will cause you, too, to lose files, folders, or even entire disks — if it hasn’t already. A package such as Norton Utilities ...

Norton windoctor pops up on start up (well actually Ive disabled it now), and has been reading my disk as very fragmented. First it was 20%, then 40%, and now its 84%!<BR>However Ive optomized both ...

I recently had two major breakdowns (partly my fault) that forced me to start from scratch each time ie. partitioning and formating the hard drive, reinstalling Windows and sofware for all my other ...

Available for Windows NT 4.0, Norton Utilities features the latest Norton Disk Doctor and Speed Disk facilities. The Disk Doctor guards workstation files by protecting underlying resources, such as ...

Like JETDefrag, the venerable Norton Speed Disk, an element of Norton SystemWorks 2004 ($69.95 direct), may just be too slow for modern hard drives. In our testing, the initial pass took over 7 hours, ...