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Article #12407Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
From: ... and the flying circus
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 23:35
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 23:35
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In article <1991May28.140354.446@sc2a.unige.ch> fisher@sc2a.unige.ch writes: >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. > Today,my roommate was running Speed Disk, and I noticed 2 immovable block right in the middle of his disk. They were hidden files, so we changed them to un-hidden, and they became movable again... did the original poster have a HUGE portion of his disk Hidden? -- ************ And now...Marcel Marceau will mime * 1 6 * A man being struck about the head by a 16 ton weight * T O N S * Chaos: 1 Dinosaurs: 0 ****************** I-net: MPYTHON@wpi.WPI.edu |there is NO rule #6
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!m2c!wpi.WPI.EDU!mpython From: mpython@wpi.WPI.EDU (... and the flying circus) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk Message-ID: <1991Jun4.233518.20269@wpi.WPI.EDU> Date: 4 Jun 91 23:35:18 GMT References: <10545@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May28.140354.446@sc2a.unige.ch> Organization: WPI Discordian Society Lines: 22