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Murphy's Law is the reason you need products such as Symantec Corp.'s Norton Utilities (NU) 3.0. Unfortunately, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 has few, if any, self-healing features. When things go wrong, Norton Utilities can bail you out of your predicament.
I tested the latest version of this software on a Hewlett-Packard Co. Vectra VL with a 200 MHz Pentium processor running Windows 95. I had three physical drives, each about 2G, and four logical drives. For tests involving low-level editing of hard drives to create problems for Norton Disk Doctor (NDD) to solve, I used a notebook: Dell Computer Corp.'s Inspiron 3000 with a 200 MHz Pentium MMX processor.
When I converted my primary computer from a machine using Windows 95 to one using the newer OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) version, I tried to move my copy of the first version of NU for Windows 95 to the new computer. Fortunately, NU noticed my hard drive had a new file structure, and it refused to make changes on the disk. I'm grateful to the programmers who kept me from accidentally trashing my hard drive by using Version 1.0 on a hard drive structure for which it was not designed.
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