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Norton Utilities 8.0

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edited April 2020 in Product Comments

imageNorton Utilities 8.0

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  • PawnPawn

    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.

  • SomeGuySomeGuy

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

  • ibmpc5150ibmpc5150
    edited April 2020

    @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.)

  • opus7opus7
    Minimum CPU is 80286, does not run on the 8086 unfortunately
  • SomeGuySomeGuy
    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.
  • tarlabnortarlabnor
    English versions without DES encryption are kinda "English International", versions with 'DES" were for sale in the USA and Canada only.
  • bassbass
    It's possible to unpack all 4 FDD images into a single directory on the hard drive and continue the installation from there.

    Here's a problem, though. The installer complains about problems extracting `symevnt1.dll`. Indeed, immediately after you encounter this problem, the installation directory will be missing this file (while `symevnt.386` will still be present).

    This is because the installer removes all copies of `symevnt1.dll` it happens to find on the hard disk. Literally, all copies -- including the one it intended to install.

    So the solution is to preserve the file (outside your DOS box),
    manually copy the DLL to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM,
    and add `symevnt.386` to the [386enh] section of your `system.ini`.

    This will allow Norton Disk Doctor to run in the background.
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