Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!esosun!ucsdhub!loral!jlh From: jlh@loral.UUCP (The Mad Merkin Hunter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton Message-ID: <1819@loral.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 88 17:05:44 GMT References: <2306@phred.UUCP> <1385@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> Reply-To: jlh@loral.UUCP (Physically Pffft) Organization: At the Remote Controls Lines: 31 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. When I first got microsofts 5.1 C compiler I played around with the editor they provided. When I was done I found a directory 'deleted', in it were some files I had been playing with. None of these files could be deleted! I had to use Norton to re-set the attributes before I could nuke the bloody things. The bush I'm beating around is that when I ran speed disk with that directory there I had a block of 15-20 unmovable spaces. These vanished when I deleted the files. Now I only have 2 blocks of unmovable spaces, one at the beginning of the disk with 2 spaces, which I assume is the boot track, and another block of 1 space in the middle of my disk. Jim "Most mothers don't think there is a woman in the world good enough for her son. My mother may be right." -- Jim Harkins Loral Instrumentation, San Diego {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest, akgua, decvax, ihnp4}!ucsd!sdcc6!loral!jlh