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From: passaret@brahe.steinmetz.ge.com (Mr. Mike Passaretti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton
Summary: It's only a movie ....
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Date: 10 Aug 88 14:57:34 GMT
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In article <1385@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> mlawless@ncrwic.UUCP (Mike Lawless) writes:
>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 have noticed the same thing when using Norton "Speed Disk."  I don't have
>any copy-protected software either, so I tried scanning all of my directories
>looking for hidden files.  I didn't find any.  Just a theory, but it could
>have something to do with a logical error in the FAT.  Try running CHKDSK.
>(In my case, this did not turn up any problem, but you never know.)
>
>Mike Lawless

It's DOS, guys.  MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS or IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM 
(MS-DOS and PC-DOS) are immovable objects, and Norton is not an 
irresistible force |-).  The program is smart enough to know that
it shouldn't muck with these files, since some versions of the 
OS's need them to be the first directory entries, or be the first thing
on the disk, or both.  No magic, nothing wrong, that's just the way it
works.

(By the way, any file which is hidden (I'm sure about this) or has
its system bit set (I'm-a no so sure of-a dis) will be 'Unmovable')

                                                        - MM


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