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Article #12232Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
From: Kumar Rangan
Date: Sun, 26 May 1991 02:15
Date: Sun, 26 May 1991 02:15
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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.
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Olly Morgan @ Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh EH9 2HH, Scotland
Tel: (+44 31) 662 4395 E.Mail: O.Morgan@ed.ac.uk
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Was the PC using a permanent swap file for win 3, enh mode ? If so, the
swap file will appear as an "unmovable block" in SD.
* Kumar "If it aint broke, dont fix it!" Rangan *
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