Jurgen Welz
jwelz at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 11 15:55:45 CDT 2006
I've had two laptops where I've attempted to uninstall Norton (02 and 03). Neither ever booted an OS successfully again. I bought two new drives and enclosures for both old laptop drives. Putting the drives in the enclosure allowed me to pull off all the files I wanted. Ultimately I burned everything to DVDs before formatting the old drives and use them for photo/movie storage. I'm not sure if the NAV versions I was using had the rootkit garbage that Norton was caught using, but unfortunately the two machines were purchased with a factory install of that software. The next time I purchase a machine, a condition of the purchase will be that no part of Norton was ever installed. Drivers are why Windows is considered Plug & PRAY. I liked being able to set a couple of jumpers to set IRQs and interrupts. I used to have a nightmare with modems after operating systems went plug and play. I suppose the Command window is 640*480 resolution? You could try some multiboot/partition software to give the bare setup another chance without nuking the system entirely. Ciao Jürgen Welz Edmonton, Alberta jwelz at hotmail.com >From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net> > >Did you try to boot into safe mode and remove the device/drivers? > >Also you mentioned you just bought NAV - have you installed it yet? NAV >2005/2006 have been a royal PITA for me.