Original 6 disk images for Norton Utilities for Mac v2.
This was a US only version, as it included DES encryption. As I remember this version was unique in that it included Norton Backup, previously sold seperately. The installer lists these components:
Norton Backup is worth the purchase price alone. It works all the way up to Mac OS 9.2.
The latest upgrade of the Macintosh's most popular disk-repair and data-recovery package won’t dazzle users with innovation, but it does give them more for their money than the previous version did. Norton Utilities for Macintosh 2.0 features state-of-the art recovery tools, new backup options, and a suite of enhanced security and disk-organization utilities borrowed from the now-defunct SUM (Symantec Utilities for Macintosh) package.
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Norton Utilities' essential diagnostic and repair utility, Norton Disk Doctor, packs even more muscle in version 2.0 than it did in the previous version. Disk Doctor can now handle a wider variety of situations involving damaged volumes (drives as well as partitions). In addition, Symantec has increased the program's data-recovery success rate by beefing up Disk Doctor's UnErase and Format Recover commands,
Also substantially improved is FileSaver panel that tracks deleted files, stores volume-backup information, and saves comments during desktop rebuilding. The data that FileSaver records is essential to the package's ability to restore erased files and recover data from damaged disks. FileSaver can now update its data at user-specifiable intervals or on demand through the use of a hot key. This feature will have special appeal to network administrators, because the previous version’s updates on restart weren't useful for servers. Other new options also let you designate the circumstances under which FileSaver updates are performed, PowerBook users, for example, can set FileSaver to perform updates just before their PowerBook goes to sleep.
Speed Disk, Norton’s volume-optimization utility, is improved in version 2.0 to allow the defragmentation of the current startup volume. The previous version didn't allow operations on startup volumes, with the exception of scans to determine fragmentation. Defragmentation guarantees that all files are stored contiguously on a volume.
Optimization takes fragmentation one step further and moves all files toward the beginning of the volume, thereby creating a large contiguous free space. As with the previous version of Speed Disk, the optimization process can be prioritized, so files that aren't Frequently altered (system files, control panels, and extensions, for example) are located closer to the beginning of the volume than frequently used files are. As a result, frequently used files are closest to the free space on the volume, which allows them to grow with less likelihood of fragmentation.
Revamped completely in version 2.0 is Norton’s Directory Assistance, one of the most comprehensive directory-dialog-box extenders currently available. On a menu bar that it adds to each Open, Save, and Save As dialog box, the utility lists your most recently accessed files and folders and lets you specify any files and folders you want listed permanently . You can also control the sorting order of the list, find files and folders (Directory Assistance uses the same high-speed search engine as Norton’s Fast Find tool does), and create new folders — all without returning to the Finder.
The Fast Find DA, a carryover from version 1.0, was originally designed to outperform System 6's Find File DA. Version 2.0’s Fast Find continues the tradition by outclassing System 7’s Finder. Fast Find quickly builds a list of files and folders that match userspecified search strings. You can inspect each found item by choosing Gel Info, which lets you determine the file’s origin. or by looking at ihe contents of the file with Fast Find's viewer. To display the tile’s icon and the directory in which it resides in the Finder, you can simply Option-double-click on the file's name in Fast Find's list, causing an Apple event to be sent to the Finder.
In addition to enhancements to existing features, Symantec has added several new tools to the Norton Utilities package, including timed-backup capabilities. Norton Backup lets you back up files to floppies or to a single large file (for example, to a file that resides on a server), and it can optionally compress the data. Once you've specified the backup medium and the files, folders, and volumes you want to back up, you can save the settings. If you need to perform regular unattended backups, you can use Backup's scheduling feature to set times for either incremental or full backups. The Norton Backup extension can automatically start a backup for you or send you a reminder to back up at a set time.
By incorporating tools from the SUM package, Norton Utilities has grown in breadth to include several serviceable security and disk-organization tools. The Floppier utility, which was completely rewritten for Norton 2.0, lets you store complete representations of floppy disks in a file on your hard disk, making it an excellent tool for mass formatting and duplication of floppy disks.
One drawback to Floppier, however, is that its file format is incompatible with Apple's DiskCopy utility. Still, Floppier offers one advantage over DiskCopy. DiskCopy files are always the size of an entire floppy disk, whereas Floppier files contain only used sectors of the disk. Empty sectors are not saved, which generally reduces the size of Floppier image files. If you don't need compatibility with DiskCopy, Floppier is an excellent tool.
The new Norton data-security tools are Wipe Info and Norton Encrypt. Wipe Info is the antithesis of everything Norton Utilities has stood for in the past. Rather than excelling at rescuing files, this utility excels at permanently erasing files, volumes, and free space on volumes, by overwriting specific areas. Normally, when files are deleted, the directory information is erased but the data itself remains. Wipe Info ensures that the data as well as the directory information is destroyed. Not even Norton Utilities' data-recovery tools can restore data once it’s been wiped out with this tool. System 7 users can take advantage of Wipe Info's ability to create a Wipe Info Trash, which operates much like the System 7 Trash, except that any files dragged onto it are permanently erased.
Norton Encrypt is an application that lets you encrypt and decrypt files with either Norton's own proprietary algorithm or with the DES (Data Encryption Standard) method. Under System 7, you can drag and drop tiles or folders directly onto Encrypt to either encrypt or decrypt them.
Norton’s security features are a nice windfall, but most users who require fairly stringent security measures will probably be better off investing in a standalone security package.
The Norton Partition feature, also taken from SUM. lets you create large invisible files, called soft partitions, that reside within the hard partitions on your hard disk. By partitioning a high-capacity disk that stores many files, you can significantly shorten the time it takes to locate files. However, soft partitions have their pros and cons when compared with hard partitions, which are created with hard-disk-formatting utilities. Data in soft partitions may not be easily recoverable if the hard partition crashes. Separate hard partitions, on the other hand, are likely to remain unharmed when other partitions go down. Version 2.0 of Norton's recovery tools provides extra support for Norton soft partitions to improve the chances of recovering their contents after a crash.
In general, soft partitions are more flexible and convenient to set up than hard partitions. You can create, delete, and expand them on the fly, which you can’t do with hard partitions, Norton Partition lets you encrypt all the data in a partition — some hard-partitioning utilities also provide this feature, which provides an extra degree of security, but be forewarned that it also makes recovery from serious crashes virtually impossible.
The Bottom Line
Norton Utilities for Macintosh 2.0 is a solid collection of data-recovery and productivity tools, teamed with several backup and security options. Although the latest version doesn't win any prizes for innovation, as did the first version of the program, we highly recommend it. Norton Utilities for Macintosh provities an invaluable safety net for your data — no serious hard-drive user should be without it.
Somogyi, Stephan. (September 1992). Norton Utilities for Macintosh 2.0. MacUser. (pgs. 58-59).
System 6.0.4 and later.
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
