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Norton Utilities 7.03 kill my G4 with jaguar !
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Brazil
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I need some help here folks . I have got an apple G4 with 10.2.8 installed. My internal support used Norton utilities 7.03 for some basic maintenance. Since he used this utilitie in my mac today, i have this error : overlap extended allocation . what can i do ? using fsck in single mode is not helping. thanks for any tip.
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Mac Guy Brazil
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: columbus, oh
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Fire the internal support.
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"Another classic science-fiction show cancelled before its time" ~ Bender
15.2" PowerBook 1.25GHz, 80GB HD, 768MB RAM, SuperDrive
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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1) Never use Norton products on a Mac. Ever.
2) Buy DiskWarrior and allow it to fix the errors.
3) See #1.
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: From The Deep End Of The Jar ©
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Originally posted by Cadaver:
1) Never use Norton products on a Mac. Ever.
2) Buy DiskWarrior and allow it to fix the errors.
3) See #1.
I second and third that!
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20"iMac intel 2.66 Duo: 4GB RAM : OS 10.6.6
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Eesh, I'll fourth that. DiskWarrior only. Never let Norton touch your drive unless it wants to be put out of its misery - Norton is one of those "assisted suicide" doctors.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Brazil
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Thanks for your help guys ! because of norton utilities, i need to format my hard drive .
a lot of work done was lost ! thanks again for your time
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Mac Guy Brazil
Mac User since 1991
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Behind the dryer, looking for a matching sock
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Where did your internal support learn about what tools to use, from a MacMall catalog?
Norton = Bad.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
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Originally posted by MacGuyBrazil:
Thanks for your help guys ! because of norton utilities, i need to format my hard drive .
a lot of work done was lost ! thanks again for your time
DiskWarrior would have had a pretty good chance at recovering your drive.
It did when Norton destroyed one of my hard drives - DiskWarrior took about 3 minutes and all was well.
-s*
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
DiskWarrior would have had a pretty good chance at recovering your drive.
It did when Norton destroyed one of my hard drives - DiskWarrior took about 3 minutes and all was well.
-s*
It did for me as well, to a point. It got the hard disk mounting again, although I had to reinstall the OS as there were many files for which the directory information that told what folder they were supposed to be in got hosed by Norton. So what happened is that DiskWarrior scavenged the disk, and put all the files that were cut off from the directory in a "Recovered Items" folder. This resulted in a folder with a billion PkgInfo and .DS_Store files all crammed together, with suffixes added to keep their names distinct. There were also a bunch of small files used by the BSD subsystem and whatnot in there. However, this is perfectly fine if what you want to do is find your important files for work and recover them to a backup disk. DiskWarrior is great, and I've also heard some very nice things about DataRescue for this. Norton, after my experience, will never touch my drive again.
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