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Article: Norton Utilities 7.0: veteran disk-tools suite gains OS X support but not speed. (Reviews).
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Data loss is not something that happens only to other people. Misadventure will cause you, too, to lose files, folders, or even entire disks--if it hasn't already. A package such as Norton Utilities 7.0.1 for Macintosh--Symantec's OS X-only update to its well-known set of tools for file and disk recovery and maintenance--can save your day.
Norton Disk Doctor, the suite's main application, checks for a variety of problems on your disk and its files, and in most cases, it offers to fix them. You select the volumes you want to check, and the program shows its progress in the main window. It can also optionally perform a media scan to see whether your disk has any ...