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From: csd@drutx.ATT.COM (Scott Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton
Summary: From the manual ...
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Date: 16 Aug 88 19:44:50 GMT
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My Norton Utilities Manual reads as follows:

"Certain copy-protected programs put one or more files on your hard
disk that must not be relocated. ... Most of these protection
techniques set the hidden or system attribute (or both) for their
immovable files; a few use other methods.

"Speed Disk takes special precautions to avoid disturbing such
programs. Each file on a disk is examined separately. The following
items are never moved: any hidden file or hidden subdirectory, any
files within a hidden subdirectory, and any hidden subdirectories of
hidden subdirectories. There are a few copy-protection schemes (from
Vault and Softguard Systems, for example) that do not hide their
copy-protected program files. Speed Disk recognizes these files as well
and does not move them."

Conclusion: Files do not have to be hidden or system files to be
unmoveable. In fact, I have tracked down some of the unmoveable blocks
on my disk (by selectively removing files and then running SD) and
found them to be programs that were none of the above, but that
apparently looked that way to SD.

Scott Davis