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In article <1992Jul22.011419.27723@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, ignasiak@convex.cl.msu.edu (Todd J. Ignasiak) writes:
> phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Jul20.234952.13740@walter.cray.com> bdavis@cray.com (Brent G Davis) writes:
> 
>>>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?)
>>>> 
> 
>>>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
> 
>>Since probably you have all the Norton util's, you may also use the 
>>Norton Disk Doctor (NDD) for this job.
> 
> They are not necessarily lost files.  If you have hidden files, or a hidden
> directory, all the files in that hidden directory are marked as unmovable
> blocks.  I believe some of the other norton utilities will tell you if you
> have any hidden directories, I think a program such as file-find (ff) will
> parse hidden directories.

If you are running Windows 3.1 it is very likely that you are encountering
the hidden swap file, spart.386 (or some such name).  It's huge, but harmless.
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Jay Cliburn