Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!gatech!linus!mbunix!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton Message-ID: <38542@linus.UUCP> Date: 12 Aug 88 12:55:45 GMT References: <2306@phred.UUCP> <6083@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: jcmorris@mbunix (Morris) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA. Lines: 12 In article <6083@xanth.cs.odu.edu> rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) writes: >In article <2306@phred.UUCP> daveh@phred.UUCP (Dave Hampton) writes: >> [discussion of Norton's disk map marking some blocks with 'X' as unmovable] >I believe that those are the areas of the hard disk which contain >bad sectors. That makes them UNMOVABLE! Nope; clusters which are flagged in the FAT as failed are marked with a blinking'B' by the Norton displays. They are of course unmovable, but that's irrelevent since if they are marked as unusable in the FAT they can't be assigned to a file. Joe Morris