From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 11:59:12 EST
Dr. Jeff,
Dr. Jeffrey Race [mailto:jrace_at_attglobal.net] wrote:
> ANTI-VIRUS
> NAV is pre-loaded and offers to subscribe me to update service.
> What is cost and how does this compare in value and effectivness
> with alternatives (and which)? Comments invited.
I believe it's up to $29.00 annually now for the online service, same as McAfee.
But you can buy a copy of NAV for less than $20 and get updates for the virus
defs basically forever, you just can't upgrade the "engine". And Norton's
definition of "lifetime" leaves a lot to be desired as they feel it applies to
the marketing life of the product and they frequently stop offering virus
updates for older products. NAV is also a part of SystemWorks which is widely
available for $29.
> COMING CRASH
> Question: Will the recovery disk install only to the active primary
> partition as defined by Boot Magic's default setting, or will it
> wipe out the entire boot record and rewrite the entire 10 gb, thus
> wiping out days of work setting up my dream machine? If so, what
> is the workaround to recover only the Win98 code only to the 1.5 gb
> primary partition, leaving all my other partitions in peace?
Sorry to tell you, but the C: partition MUST be 2GB in FAT16 for the recovery CD
to run properly. (Actually, 2.1GB works best).
If you keep the C: partition at the mandatory size and FAT, then you can easily
select to "Recover to C: drive" from the recovery utility boot menu and the
remainder of your drive will be completely untouched. You'll have to reload
BootMagic after a recovery however. See: http://www.thinkpads.com/hints.htm
Regards,
James
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