Re: Norton's Speed Disk

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From: Brent G Davis
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:49

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In article <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET writes:
>Norton's Speed Disks tells me that over a quarter of my harddisk
>contains unmovable blocks.
>Does anyone know what's wrong? (Norton? My Hard Disk?)
> 
>Frans (a735fjo@hasara11.bitnet)
> 
> 
> 

You indeed have unmovable lost files on your hard disk.  Don't worry,
it's quite easy to recover this space.  Just use the following:

   chkdsk /f

This should convert those lost files into readable (deletable) files.

This has happened to a machine I was installing Windows 3.0 on.  Somehow
the Windows directory became a Disk Drive with 30 Terabytes of memory!!!
All of the files inside it became lost sectors.  The chkdsk fixed it,
but I would still like to find that extra disk space!  :-)

Brent

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Subject: Re: Norton's Speed Disk
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