Ooops I don't think they tested this the darn thing checks and repairs the wrong registry. Quack quack oops
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Norton 2001Utilities and dual boot win2k and win98
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Not if you make the Win2k run on an NTFS partition!
- Gurm
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Sorry Gurm it is on a ntfs partition! All it does is go off and check the windows 98 registry. Win2k can see fat32 partitons and when run the program from win2k it sees the win98 section and says all the programs are installed on the wrong partiton and the drive letters have changed. Win2k is on the second hard drive a later addition to the system. It should know operating system it's using and which registry to check.
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I think I stumped Nortons techies on this one as well. Still waiting for a reply on this one.
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Oh ah. Yes, that's a PITFA. The issue is that these programs tend to get their bearings during pre-boot (the low-res screen), when the drives are seldom mapped 100% correctly.
I've had this problem with numerous other programs which just REFUSE to believe me that the C drive isn't my boot drive...
I mean, how friggin' difficult is it to read the WINDIR environment variable, hmm?
- Gurm
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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!
I'm the least you could do
If only life were as easy as you
I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
If only life were as easy as you
I would still get screwed
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Still waiting for an answer from Norton. Maybe it's time for a bit of abuse.
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Just got this reply from Nortons
Hi Jon:
Thanks for posting to this Newsgroup/forum. Regarding your post,about Norton WinDoctor getting confused about which operating system
it is under when WinDoctor runs from Windows 2000.
At the current time, there is no "fix to have Norton look at the Windows 2000 Registry only on a Dual-Boot system. You can try a Boot Manager that will "mask" the Partitions from the operating systems.
In the meantime, I will bring this up, but you should also voice a Request via our "Feedback" box on the Web at:
Not much good really is it and something they should have picked on during testing. So on a dual boot system Norton 2001 is partly useless.
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And I was planning to BUY that sh17. Not warez it first but just buy it based on my experiences with the win98 only product. Whew!!! I would've been pissed. The main reason win2k is on a fat32 partition in my system is so that I can use speed disk to defrag pagefile.sys and place it at the front of the drive
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