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Norton Utilities 5.01 Error Messages (Users)

posted by ron Homepage E-mail, Australia, 13.08.2012, 00:56

> Yesterday I tried to use the Unerase utility in Norton Utilities 5.01 to
> check for remnants of deleted files on the hard drive, but got this
> message: "Error reading directory."
>
> The help file suggested I "calibrate" the HD, but when I tried to run the
> Norton Calibrate utility it returned the message: "There are no hard disks
> available to test."
>
> But the Norton System Summary shows "Hard disks: 23M"
>
> I'd be grateful for some help determining what first steps I can take to
> try to isolate the source of this problem.
Have you tried running Norton Disk Doctor ? (ndd)

FWIW: Norton Utilities 5.01 is probably older that your laptop and may not be able to handle it.
The last, and in my opinion the best, NU for DOS is version 8. I think that is also the last version written by Peter Norton before it was sold and went downhill.

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