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- From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and Norton Utilities
- Message-ID: <C0r74z.FzG@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 18:24:34 GMT
- References: <C0Hqwo.Czn@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK
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- > From: spader@elmer.cs.mcgill.ca (Yoo-Shin LEE)
- > Subject: Norton Desktop and Norton Utilities
- > Date: 7 Jan 93 15:55:36 GMT
- > Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- >
- > I'd like to know why Norton Destop 1.0 for windows doesn't have a
- > disk/file checker? It has the "disk doctor" but this disk doctor
- > doesn't check your whole disk or files. Norton utilities on the other
- > hand does. Am I missing something?
-
- I believe the idea is, within the Windows multitasking interface, you
- can safely check disks for errors, but not cure them or do the surface
- test. This is why you have Norton Disk Doctor for DOS, and Norton
- Disk Diagnostitian for Windows.
-
- However, I could have sworn than I've done just that. (Run NDD from windows
- and repaired / labelled bad sectors with it). Maybe you can, but it's
- just not safe.
-
- Norton have included NDD on the NDW Fix-It disks, though - so you don't
- lose out on functionality when you get NDW.
-
- Hmmm ?
-
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