Norton Utilities 8.0

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Norton Utilities 8.0

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Pawn

Installation failure with "Norton Utilities 8 (5-18-1994) DES (3.5)". The installer complains about Disk 2 "This disk doesn't appear to be one of the installation disks or it cannot be read because of a disk error". Looking at the disks, I notice they have no LABELS, while if I look at "Norton Utilities 8 (4-23-1994) (3.5)" they do have labels: "DISK 1OF4", "DISK 2OF4", "DISK 3OF4", "DISK 4OF4".

I tried using those same labels with the "Norton Utilities 8 (5-18-1994) DES (3.5)" release, but it made no difference. So it is a bad dump.

The "Norton Utilities 8 (4-23-1994) (3.5)" release did install without problems.

SomeGuy

It installed fine for me as is. Off hand I don't see anything wrong with the disk images.

ibmpc5150

@Pawn

"Norton Utilities 8 (5-18-1994) DES (3.5)" has no problem to install.
Also this is dumped from original media.
(I also dumped it from original and verified it.)

I doubt "Norton Utilities 8 (3-1-1994) (3.5)" and "Norton Utilities 8 (4-23-1994) (3.5)" is dumped from original?

First, I know no Boot ID:"MSDOS 3.3" exsits on Norton Utilites.
--> I think a lot of disk images with Boot ID:"MSDOS 3.3" is uploaded on WinWorld.
But a few of disk images seems not to be dumped from original but fake or hand-made.

Second, time stamp seems to be strange on label "labels: "DISK 1OF4", "DISK 2OF4", "DISK 3OF4", "DISK 4OF4". (No time stamp is recorded on root sector.)

opus7

Minimum CPU is 80286, does not run on the 8086 unfortunately

SomeGuy

Thanks for pointing that out. Updated the entry. Version 7.0 also requires a 286 or higher. Even a V20 won't suffice for whatever reason.

tarlabnor

English versions without DES encryption are kinda "English International", versions with 'DES" were for sale in the USA and Canada only.