Re: Norton Disklock and MacOS 8.5 problems

[Dale <drshearon@mindspring.com>]

In article <0jPe5.5676$RG6.535407@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, 
"Bernie Holl" <bwholl@att.net> wrote:

> I have a friend who locked his ide boot drive in his MAC G3 running MacOS
> 8.5 using Norton Disklock 4.0.  After rebooting, the drive has vanished 
> from
> his system and he has to boot off the second drive.
> 
> I moved the drive to the second ide bus and now Disk Setup can see but 
> only
> gives us an option to initialize the drive.
> 
> We have tried Emergency Diskunlock 4.0 and 4.6.  4.0 doesn't even see the
> drive and 4.6 see it but says it is not locked, after 30 minutes.
> 
> Anyone have any idea how to unlock this drive?  He really would like to
> recover the drive.  Norton support has been useless to this point.
> 
> Bernie
> bwholl@att.net
> 
> 

     Norton sold Disklock to Power Utilities some time back after 
letting it gather way too much dust. My version 4.0 went unstable after 
OS 8.5 on my 8500 and I have never installed it on my G3. I lost several 
SyQuest disks to this scenerio. They are so trashed that they won't 
mount using any utility I know of. Salvage what you can and tell your 
friend to switch to FileGuard from Software Architechs ( pardon the 
spelling. I think the wed addy is SAtech). I know this is not much help, 
but it is all I have to offer.

Dale