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From: kumarr@hparc0.HP.COM (Kumar Rangan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
Message-ID: <2770023@hparc0.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 91 02:15:52 GMT
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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
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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.

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