Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tikal!phred!daveh From: daveh@phred.UUCP (Dave Hampton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton Message-ID: <2311@phred.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 88 15:57:46 GMT References: <2306@phred.UUCP> Reply-To: daveh@phred.UUCP (Dave Hampton) Organization: <2306@phred.UUCP>o Lines: 19 In article <2306@phred.UUCP> daveh@phred.UUCP (Dave Hampton) writes: > > When using the Advanced Version 4.0 of the Norton Utilities, the map of >the hard disk shows available space, filled space, bad blocks, and something >designated "Unmovable Space", shown with an "X". What are these spaces? Many thanks to all who replied to this message... Several folks suggested that the X's were lost clusters, which could be removed with CHKDSK /F. This did turn out to be the source of the problem, and the hard disk map is now free of all of the annoying X's. -- Dave Hampton -- Reply to: uiucuxc!tikal!phred!daveh {Dave Hampton} Addr: Research Division, Physio-Control Corp. P.O. Box 97006 Redmond, WA 98073-9706