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From: Conrad.Bullock@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Conrad Bullock)
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Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
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Date: 26 May 91 00:50:55 GMT
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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.  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. 
|> 
|> Does anyone know why this happens (I thought only hidden and system
|> files where unmoveable) and how to cure the problem?  

Norton's SD also marks as unmovable any free unlinked chains. Try
running CHKDSK /F (or NDD) before you run SD.
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