Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!xanth!rlb From: rlb@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton Message-ID: <6083@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: 12 Aug 88 01:16:24 GMT References: <2306@phred.UUCP> Reply-To: rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 9 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? >The manual doesn't say. I'm not using copy protected software, so they >shouldn't be related to any hidden files or keys. > I believe that those are the areas of the hard disk which contain bad sectors. That makes them UNMOVABLE!