Re: Loud clicking..

[Glenn Schunemann]

I've been in the Apple technical field for 10 years. I have never had 
Norton Utilities "eat" a hard drive. Some drives are so bad off it may 
be Norton that "seems" to kill them, but it usually simply a 
coincidence. Alas, Norton is not a perfect piece of software and there 
were some glitches with the first OS X versions. You'll note that I 
stated to back up everything first as a precaution. Never use the the 
"x.0" version of Norton. It seems there's always something squirrely 
about it. Wait for the "x.1" update. Having personally witnessed Norton 
saving more drives than killing, I think it should be a part of your 
software troubleshooting toolkit. Disk Warrior is by far the best piece 
of troubleshooting software made for Mac.

On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 05:47 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote:

On 8/9/03 2:11 PM, "Glenn Schunemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the
Cybertrough:
Norton Utilities has a true "defrag" capability (it defrags all the
data) called "Speed Disk." It's one of the functions of the Norton
suite. It works very well in my experience. However, just to be safe,
backup everything before you run it. One never knows....
Norton is the biggest piece of junk software suite on the market.  It 
is
sold to people who like to watch the blinky colorful animations of it 
fixing
the disk.  It not only messes up people's data, but it has also been 
known
to render disks completely unusable without reformatting.  As a full 
time
Apple Service Technician all I do is deal with these problems all day 
long.
So take it from me:

NEVER INSTALL ANYTHING NORTON ON ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!

That being said I have been known to attempt to run it from a CD 
(without
installing) in an emergency situation, but it rarely does any good.

Use Diskwarrior, PlusOptimzer and Apple's utilities and you will be 
fine.

--
Kyle H. Hansen
"It's Always darkest... right before it gets totally black."

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