Cd-Utils Recovery Disk ?

johnrpjohnrp
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
Ok ok ok, this may be a dumb question but I still have to ask (how else will I learn ?)



In the olden days (OS9) I used to have a lot of problems with an old disk drive and seemed to be running Norton all the time on it. It actually got to the point of me making a Boot Cd with minimal system, Norton Utils and Other useful little apps I had gathered over the years.



I would like to do this for OSX as I have a dual G4 who?s hard drive is having a little wobble, I have had to install OSX and Norton (and extra utils) on a clean partition boot from it and repair the original drive. This is ok as I have bags of room (and a spare partition) but without it I would be stuck.



Can I make a trusty repair utils disk ?



If so how do I get he system Norton and extra apps on and running as a boot disk ?



Thanks



j.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    rbfoyerbfoye Posts: 77member
    Dont have an answer for you, but I am having similar problems.



    Can you tell me if I can partition a hard disk with stuff on it, i.e., when you a partition a hard disk, do you lose everthing on the disk?



    Thanks.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    johnrpjohnrp Posts: 357member
    If you partition a disk it will erase it's entire contents.



    sorry :-(
  • Reply 3 of 3
    tommy_thompsontommy_thompson Posts: 224member
    If I understand what you are looking for it would be a utility to let you make a minimal system, and add a utility to it, such as drive 10. What you would be looking for is <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15196"; target="_blank">VersionTracker- BootCD</a>



    This lets you make a minimal system and add a utility, or other self contained program on the CD. It won't work with Norton Utilities, since they cannt seem to have an application that is self contained- they seem to have the need to put crap all over your hard drive.



    Anyways, enough of a rant about Norton- hope this is what you are looking for!



    Oh- almost forgot...it is kinda slow..but it will get the job done just fine. Just keep in mind the first time you start off of your new CD- it will seem to drag forever..but fret not..it is working and will boot up. On my system at least it seems to get faster after the first two times of start up.



    -tommy



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