Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!auvax!kevinc
From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton
Summary: Same on a Zenith Laptop
Message-ID: <690@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 19:37:45 GMT
References: <2306@phred.UUCP> <1385@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
Lines: 17

In article <1385@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>, mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (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?

Just to toss something into the For Your Infor basket - on a Zenith
laptop I am using at home the same thing appeared when I tested out sd
and I went looking for the unmovable space.  Well eventually I found it
- it was an altmenu.sys file - a thing needed when you set up the
machine for hard disks and other fancy stuff

This file is generated by the setup program and, at least on my
machine, it does not appear as a regular file but rather as a
collection of stuff that was direct sector addressed and written
directl;y to a VERY particular spot on the hard disk.