Dr. Norton Kills Patient?

[mervTormel]

David Coursey over at ZDnet had cardiac trouble with his OSX rig and published this article:

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2862263,00.html

now then, i know some of you run Norton Disk Rx and i've heard some stories about these "missing thread records," and "keys out of order"

just a few weeks ago, my housemate came to me and reported this business. result: norton completely lost the patient.

so, i don't buy Symantec's 'unusual' claim. i think maybe they're dog-paddling in the doo-doo river here. personally, i thought their beta OSX release was a major debacle.

can anyone who runs norton disk doctor corroborate this experience?

i implore you all to backup your user data before 'fixing' your disks and be cautious with these new products.

Dr. Norton appears to be Dr. Kevorkian in disguise.

i predict one of two things: either some major spin-damage control from Symantec shortly, or we'll never hear another word from them.

[Craig R. Arko]

The day Peter Norton sold the biz to Symantec it's days were numbered.

Remember MacTools, Lightspeed (Think)C and Pascal, and MORE? All run into the ground by Symantec.

My 2¢.

[JBrown]

Now, this is, I guess, me getting what i deserve:

I "borrowed" a copy of SystemWorks 2.0 from a friend (with FULL intention on buying, but I had to TRY it after the NU Public Beta debacle) and tried it on my PowerMac. Norton Utilities made my drive UNbootable. Lost it. Gone. Single User Mode with Fsck? Nope. I even had a backup copy that was made with the copy of Retrospect 5.0 that came with the disk. The backup file was corrupted. UNusable.

This is the very reason I did NOT buy this stuff before I tried it. I will not buy Norton Utilities nor Retrospect until the software does what it claims. How can they even get away with this? TRASHED my hard drive. Retrospect ERASED my hard drive, with my full permission, so that it could backup all of the data into a bootable form. Sorry! Not today, not tomarrow, not ever.

I would urge anyone who wants to use this software to run a program like Carbon Copy Cloner to at least have SOME backup to work with. That way when Norton Utilities ruins your hard drive you can have an actual working copy to restore from. Oh, and yes, I did have a backup of my documents which is all well and good, but installing application software for six hours is not my idea of a great day off.

Cheers,

J.