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From: jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton
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Date: 12 Aug 88 12:55:45 GMT
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In article <6083@xanth.cs.odu.edu> rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) writes:
>In article <2306@phred.UUCP> daveh@phred.UUCP (Dave Hampton) writes:
>>  [discussion of Norton's disk map marking some blocks with 'X' as unmovable]
>I believe that those are the areas of the hard disk which contain 
>bad sectors.  That makes them UNMOVABLE!

Nope; clusters which are flagged in the FAT as failed are marked with a
blinking'B' by the Norton displays.  They are of course unmovable, but that's
irrelevent since if they are marked as unusable in the FAT they can't be
assigned to a file.

Joe Morris