on 10/11/01 5:18 PM, Alexander MacLeod at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe it's just me, but I find that DiskWarrior, > TechTool, and Norton (and I own all three) work better > when you don't install them on your hard drive. When I > run diagnostics on my highly modded Beige G3, I always > boot from the CD and run the utilities from there. I > had had trouble under OS 8.6 when I had Norton and > TechTool on the same drive, and it was very difficult > to troubleshoot at the time.
You should always do that, or startup from a disk that isn't your startup disk... As that way it can check running files (such as your system). I have come to love diskwarrior as it has saved disks others couldn't, but for some reason it can't handle one of my media disks... when it goes into its thing of rebuilding heirarchies it finds like 19,000 overlapped files and sloooowly keeps going but it takes so long (let it go with 700megs of ram allocated for 8hours) that I finally just stopped it and let norton deal with it. > Since I have kept all utilities off the hard drive, my > machine has run notably better. Just having them hang out is no problem for me, its the ones that try to be proactive in stopping damage (ie, norton crashguard) by monitoring computer activity or acting as a middleman that have caused me headaches. I'd be willing to bet a steak dinner that crashguard has caused more crashes than it has prevented. -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
