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From: jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton
Message-ID: <38402@linus.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 15:41:42 GMT
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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.
>

The "Unmovable Space" flag is set for any file which is marked "hidden" or
"system"; it is also set for files whose names come close to or match those
of the two sacred boot-time files.  (These are IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM in
the PC-DOS systems.)  I had the same question a while back and discovered 
that the MSDOS.EXE placeholder file in Windows was triggering the "X" flag
in Norton's SD code.  
 
Norton's documentation is completely silent on this issue.