Years ago, Semantic bought up a little company (whose name I can't remember and republished the software as SUM (I think that was the name of the first version). It was a great disk recovery software for HDs and floppies.
Then they Switched their name to Norton, and since then they just don't seem to care.
Here is why you don't use Norton in the background: It causes very bad crashes. Here is why you don't leave disks lying around: Your wife will run Norton, it will say: "There is a teeny tiny little insignificant file that has a hangnail, Don't you want to fix it? Well don't you--PUNK?" And so she fixes it and you then have a beautiful pristine drive with no hangnails AND no files AND thanks to the magic of Norton, your old files are totally unrecoverable.
I keep Norton with the idea that it might solve a problem that Diskwarrior hasn't. So far that hasn't happened for me, but the old version would allow straight access to the disk so you could search for text strings in the various sectors, but as a practical matter that's of limited use. The old diskoptimizer thingy worked fine, but it is my opinion that the Diskwarrior version works A LOT better, maybe because it sorts files based upon file types.
the Jumbo Norton comes with a limited copy of Diskwarrior, and a copy of Retrospect express, so it isn't such a horrible deal, but you should always keep a copy of Diskwarrior around. I don't know about the optimizers. I recently read that you don't need them anymore with OSX (if it's on the internet, wouldn't you think it was true?). I do know that the Diskwarrior Plus Optimizer program for OS9 can really make you happy.
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