Description:
Whether you need to recover from a hard drive disaster or you just want to make sure your Mac is running as smoothly as the day you bought it, Norton Utilities 7.0 contains all the tools you'll need. What's more, it now runs on Mac OS X as well as Mac OS 8 and OS 9. Installation of Norton Utilities 7.0 is quick and easy. If you have bought the software to recover a damaged hard drive, the CD-ROM acts as a startup disk, allowing you to recover your drive without damaging any missing data. Even if your drive is apparently working fine, it pays to run Norton Utilities 7.0 from the CD-ROM first to check for problems before installation. Norton Utilities 7.0 consists of five main components to cover almost any maintenance you will ever need to do on your Mac. Norton Disk Doctor scans your disk to find and repair damaged files and applications, as well as to detect physical damage to areas of the disk itself. With Disk Doctor set to automatically repair any damage it finds, keeping your disks error free is a simple task. The Live Repair feature of Norton Disk Doctor allows many common disk problems to be fixed even if they are on your boot drive, without rebooting from the CD. Speed Disk optimizes your disk performance by reuniting files that have become fragmented before moving them around on the disk (to optimize performance). You can even optimize your hard drive for specific needs, such as for multimedia use, CD burning, or software development, ensuring that your disk performance is maximized for a given task. FileSaver and UnErase effectively work together to protect your data by tracking files that you delete, and scanning your disk for damage at startup or shutdown. If you happen to delete a file that you later need to recover, UnErase can often recover the file in its entirety. Finally, Volume Recover works in conjunction with FileSaver to recover disks that are either so badly damaged that they cannot be read, or that have been accidentally initialized. Currently, some features of previous versions of Norton Utilities, such as Speed Disk, do not run on Mac OS X. However, by booting your Mac from the Norton Utilities 7.0 CD, all the features of Norton Utilities 6.0 are available, and work just as well on disks with Mac OS X installed. Users of Mac OS 8 or OS 9 should note that Norton Utilities 7.0 includes Norton Utilities 6.0 for operating systems older than Mac OS X, so if you already own this version and do not use Mac OS X, Norton Utilities 7.0 offers no new features for you. Norton's reputation and long history of producing Mac disk utilities makes Norton Utilities 7.0 an essential addition to any Mac user's troubleshooting library, and its ease of use and range of integrated functions is second to none. --Daniel Jardine, Amazon.co.uk
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