Latest Norton Utilities, good-news/bad-news
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(kind-of) with Panther.
The stuff I am interested in runs great, namely their "Disk Editor X"
and Speed Disk.
As regards their Disk Doctor utility, that appears to be buggy. Disk
Doctor reports that there are all sorts of things wrong with the file
system, while Panther's own disk "first-aid" utility gives the file
system a clean bill of health. I don't trust Disk Doctor's reports.
I doubt if I will ever complain about Apple's buggy Panther "Disk
Utility" again, given my recent experiences with Symantec. Not only
are Norton Utilities buggy in some of their utilities, but their
website is confusing to navigate, and their "Live Update" gimmick is a
royal PITA.
The newest Panther-compatable version 8.0.1 of Norton Utilities is a
6.2 MB download, which is free. Unfortunately, Symantec makes it very
difficult/impossible to download the new version directly.
Right now, it appears you _have_ to install the older 8.0 version
first, then use the "Live-Update" feature in order to download the
newest version 8.0.1 which Panther needs.
Eventually, Symantec will ship a Panther-compatable physical CD ver
8.0.1 - - - at least they say so on their website.
They claimed that such a CD would be available by mid-January, but so
far it has not shown up.
On a more optimistic note, I celebrated by partitioning my internal
drive the following way, using Panther's buggy Disk Utility along with
Norton's newest Disk Editor:
exact size name
***************************************
012.00 GB Panther
016.00 MB Buffer
004.00 MB Tiny
512.00 MB OS9
020.00 GB Storage
Normally, Panther's buggy Disk Utility is not capable of preserving the
above desired order of partitions, much less their desired exact size.
Jaguar's version of Disk Utility is not afflicted with those bugs, BTW.
Now, thanks to Norton's Disk Editor, I can force the buggy Panther Disk
Utility to observe my prefered order of where I want the partitions to
be located, and force the exact sizes of partitions to be obtained,
just like when using Jaguar.
Now to answer the obvious question. Why not just use Jaguar's older
Disk Utility to do all my partitioning. That would indeed work in the
short run, but there is no guarantee that it would work when Apple
makes future changes to OS X.
With the Norton Disk Editor 'workaround', I can use any future versions
of Disk Utility along with all of its new 'features' (like journaling,
for example) - - - and still enjoy the exact partition sizing and
correct order-of-partitions.
It is a hassle doing the workaround, but bearable because I don't
partition disks all that often.
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