However, when you say "Norton Utilities", there are many different parts, as the plural name implies. Norton Disk Doctor is recommended, but it seems you are referring to Norton Speed Disk. Speed Disk is a defragmenter, which is a dangerous program on any computer on any platform. Defragmenters usually rewrite almost every block on your hard drive. Using it on an old hard drive like yours is really asking for trouble. If you really wish to use it, be very sure you have made a recent backup beforehand, and that you are confident of the integrity of said backup. Within several uses of Speed Disk, you will probably need to restore from the backup, and you may have to do it to a new drive you have purchased.
Best Regards,
Trevor
On Jul 16, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Don wrote:
I have a 4 gig hard drive that is getting fragmented badly. I tried = to run Norton utilities on it and Norton says that it cannot run on = an HFS drive. In addition, in the process of clearing everything off = that drive in order to clean it up, Finder is presenting a message = saying that there is not enough memory available on the recieving = drive for items to be copied. That cannot be correct when I'm trying = to copy a 35 meg folder onto a drive with 700 megs of free space. = I'd prefer to move everything together instead of throwing it all = over the place...but before I do that it seemed like a good idea to = get feedback from the list on whatever is going wrong.
Am I doing something wrong?
System 9.1 Machine 7300-200 128 megs of RAM 5 hard drives Norton Utilities version: 3.53
I've heard scuttlebut about some point of Norton Utilities being a = good tool to use on some configurations, and eventually the wrong = item to use on others, but I never watched that close to see where = the 'break point' is.
Can anyone recommend a good utility prog to use on this configuration = if Norton is no longer appropriate or 'safe'?
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