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- Norton Rescue Disk for Windows 98, 98 SE, and Millennium
- Copyright (c) 2002 Symantec Corporation
- All rights reserved
-
- Please read this document carefully; it contains important
- information about Norton Rescue Disk.
-
- ===========
- Rescue Disk is designed for the Windows 98, Windows 98SE, and Windows
- Millennium. Rescue Disk will not install or function on Windows NT,
- Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
- ===========
- The Rescue Disk utility requires a 3.5" floppy disk drive. Rescue Disk
- requires up to ten 1.44MB 3.5" floppy diskettes. 720K disks and
- 5.25" diskettes are not supported. 2.88MB and 120MB LS-120 floppy
- drives may be used to create Rescue Disks, but only using 1.44MB floppy
- diskettes. Rescue Disk does not detect USB drives.
- ===========
- If you create a Rescue Set on the hard drive, you will need to remove
- a command-line parameter while in the Rescue Shell. When you launch
- the Rescue Shell from the hard drive, you will see this command:
-
- NAVDX.EXE C: /L /DOALLFILES /ZIPS/REPAIR /CFG:A
-
- Because you created the Rescue Set on the hard drive, you need to
- remove the "A" switch, otherwise Rescue will try to look for
- its configuration information (and VirusDefs) from a floppy. So,
- the command-line prompt should look like this:
-
- NAVDX.EXE C: /L /DOALLFILES /ZIPS/REPAIR /CFG:
-
- This will instruct Rescue to look in the current directory (where you
- created the Rescue set). If you remove the "/CFG:A" switch entirely,
- Rescue will default to looking in the drive where you installed Rescue.
- ===========
- Basic Rescue Disk recovery must be run from DOS. Rescue Disk
- does not support running the Basic Rescue Disk recovery
- utility from a DOS window inside Windows.
- ===========
- The DOS Rescue Disk utility in Basic Rescue mentions that it has the
- capability to restore the CMOS information of the machine. This is
- incorrect. The CMOS restore feature was removed.
- ===========
- Rescue Disk sets will not boot properly or repair hard disks that
- require a Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO). Dynamic Drive Overlay refers to
- a particular type of drive translation software. Brand names such as
- Ontrack Disk Manager, MaxBlast, EZ-Drive, or BootMagic basically
- perform the same function as Dynamic Drive Overlays. If the
- computer uses a DDO, it must be loaded each time the system
- is started. Your DDO software includes either a bootable
- floppy disk that has the necessary files, or it includes
- instructions for how to create a bootable floppy disk that
- you can use to start your system before running programs from
- the Rescue Disk set.
- ===========
- If you have GoBack installed and it is enabled, do not use the
- Rescue Recovery Wizard to restore your partition tables. Doing
- so will cause GoBack to be disabled the next time you restart your
- machine.
- ===========
- If Rescue Disk freezes while you are creating Rescue Disks,
- format the disk in Windows and run Rescue Disk again.
- ===========
- Creating a Rescue Disk set requires that you restart your
- system using the Rescue Disk set, in order to complete the
- set creation. Restarting your system after an update is
- optional, but is highly recommended.
- ===========
- We strongly recommend shutting down any applications running
- in the background before creating a Rescue Disk set.
- ===========
- Disk Manager partitions are not compatible with Rescue Disk.
- ===========
- Rescue Disk does not support Rescue Disk sets created by
- previous versions Rescue Disk. Please make and test a new
- Rescue Disk set.
- ===========
- Rescue Disks require the following Norton Utilities and
- Norton Anti-Virus components to be complete:
-
- For a Basic Rescue Disk set:
- - Norton Utilities DOS applications
- - Norton Anti-Virus
-
- If you do not have these components, some features of
- the Rescue Disks will not be available.
- ===========
- Rescue Disk disks are closely tied to the operating system.
- If you are not using a full release version of Windows 98,
- Windows 98SE, or Windows Millennium, Rescue Disk may not have full
- functionality.
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- Rescue Disk does not support compressed disks.
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- You cannot save Rescue Disk items to the root of any hard
- disk. The root typically contains important data that
- could be overwritten.
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- Some customers have reported problems with Rescue Disk not
- functioning correctly when running in conjunction with
- MagnaRAM or QEMM97. If Rescue crashes on your system, try
- disabling the MagnaRAM option to see if it clears up the
- problem.
- ===========
- Please see trouble.txt in the Rescue Disk folder for more
- information regarding problems creating Rescue sets and/or
- problems booting from Rescue sets.
- ===========
- For additional information and technical support for Rescue Disk
- please visit Symantec's Technical Support Site at
- http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/
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