unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk

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From: O Morgan
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 12:06

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Some time ago there was some talk (panic) about large chunks of some
peoples hard disks being highlighted as "unmoveable" when trying to
unfragment the disk with Norton Speed disk.  Did anyone ever figure why
this happens? At the time people thought it was a Windows shareware
utility, though I think this was later disproved.  Though I have no
clear idea why this is happening, I suspect it has something to do with
Windows 3. 

I'm only asking because I just did an SD, and virtually the whole of my
hard disk is marked as "unmoveable blocks", which isn't very reassuring.

Does anyone know why this happens (I thought only hidden and system
files where unmoveable) and how to cure the problem?  

Olly  Morgan
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From: own@castle.ed.ac.uk (O Morgan)
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Subject: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
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Date: 25 May 91 12:06:42 GMT
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