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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
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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.  

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
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