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Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk

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From: fisher
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 12:03
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In article <10545@castle.ed.ac.uk>, own@castle.ed.ac.uk (O Morgan) writes:
> 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. [...]

Some executables with "strange" formats are also marked as unmovable.  I
noticed this with the self-extracting LHarc version 1.13c (1989), which
could be moved only when renamed to another extention.

Do windows executables have an unusual structure, which is not recognized by
earlier versions of Norton's SD?
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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
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Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
Message-ID: <1991May28.140354.446@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 28 May 91 12:03:54 GMT
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