The March, 03 issue of Mac Addict magazine, p.36 - p. 42, has a helpful article on the use and effectiveness of these utilities. Using more then one and sometimes three or more is recommended. One will do what the other doesn't do. John Brownsberger
>From: "Dennis B. Swaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (iMac List) >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (iMac List) >Subject: Re: My experience w/utility programs >Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:54:25 -0800 > >At 1:40 -0700 2/5/03, Juelie McLean wrote: > >I know this is an old thread....but I thought I would let you know my > >experience. My machine has not been running at top notch....nothing > >serious, just slight stallings from time to time. I run Norton 6 > >from the CD...not installed. It told me I had no problems. I ran > >disk doctor and it said my hard drive needed to be repaired. So I > >would click to "repair" it and it would run through the cycle and > >tell me that my hard drive had been repaired. And then I would turn > >right around and run a verification immediately and it would tell me > >that my hard drive needed to be repaired. Well, obviously it wasn't > >doing the repair. So I drug out my old TechTool Pro 2.0 and ran it. > >After it had told me I needed to make some repairs, it told me that > >it had repaired several problems within the data structures on my > >disk drive. Had the problems been left uncorrected, I could have > >lost data or the use of the drive. Now I am not a "technical" person > >and have no idea of what it means when they say problems within the > >data structure on my disk drive......but when I ran Disk Doctor again > >this time, it came up the very first time saying that my hard drive > >appeared to be OK.....So TechTool Pro MUST have done the job when the > >other two wouldn't or couldn't!! ;o) > >Isn't Disk Doctor part of Norton Utilities? > >Sincerely, >Dennis _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
