Norton Utilities 2.0x
Norton Utilities 2.0x
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Norton Utilities 2.0x
Norton Utilities 2.0x
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Just a small note: original images do not have BPB 3.0 data in range 0x0B - 0x1A, all those bytes are zeroes.
Was that causing a specific problem? In retrospect perhaps I should have included images converted to ImageDisk format since so many disk writers don't like 160k, with or without bios parameter block information.
It causes no problems. Moreover, it makes these images readable for many emulators and floppy tools that wouldn't work with it without BPB. It's just some information for those who wonder - how BPB 3.0 (that was introduced later) appeared on disks from 1983.
And one more small note. According to pcjs.org NU 2.01 dated November 3, 1983 has corrupted HU.COM
--> This has bad sector on Side B disk. (HU.COM seems to be broken.
This disk needs re-dump.
Refer this https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/util/norton/2.01/
Brady wasn't a PC vendor. It was the publisher Peter Norton collaborated with while working on his multiple PC- and programming related books.
So it was some sort of a promotional package for early Norton utilities.
Why is it not properly checked, and even though PCJS has officially mentioned where it went wrong, here it is about the uploading behavior as if there is no problem, without any mants.
And if I had the original diskette of that version, I use all sorts of methods to make the dump as error-free as possible.
Unfortunately, 2.01 (11-03-1983) uploaded to PCJS only uploaded one error dump file, but if you are like me, the error sector dumps at least 4-8 times, and the error part is more than 100 times/1000 times. I even try.
As long as the surface of the diskette is not lost or damaged by magnetic
Even if there is an error, the dump is successful in most cases,
Anyway, I don't post anything that doesn't work.
Annoyingly this is one of the times I really wish there were a kryoflux dump. The dump has most of the sector content, there are just a few bits scrambled, and with a flux-level dump it might actually be fixable.
There *is* a warning on the PCjs page where this NU version was taken from:
https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/util/norton/2.01/
ibmpc5150,
It's always much better to have a rare version with one damaged file than not to have it at all.
I probably rushed and and had the images in some large folder to process, and failed to check their web site.
But there is an older comment about that error already, so WTF did I do?
At any rate I changed the download page name to reflect that for now.
For really rare titles like this, I certainly do prefer having something out there as long as it is sufficiently documented.
The big problem is more common stuff that just gets slopped togeather, like Windows 98 ISOs made from file stets. Get... on.. too.. eBeh.. and BUY one. I'm not wasting my time testing a non original Windows 9x/NT dump, when one can be easily had. Then of course there is the popular stuff like Windows pre-releases that weirdos like to fake.