Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!mbunix!jcmorris 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 References: <2306@phred.UUCP> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: jcmorris@mbunix (Morris) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA. Lines: 18 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.