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		BenFeldman1930 on Jan 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where have you gone, Peter Norton? (2014) As kids we shared disks with games in school at a time when games began to need 10+ 3.5" disks. To save disks we zipped them with RAR and splitted the archive. Often one disk (usually the last one) was defect. What to do? Waiting till Monday? No, Norton Disk Utils to the rescue! Thanks, Peter, for many saved weekends.

cable2600 on Jan 5, 2022 [–]

It didn't work that way on hard drives, usually Spinrite worked better than Norton Diskdoctor.

But in the floppy days it was a life saver.

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