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From: rodrigol@ulrik.uio.no (Rodrigo Lopez)
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Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
Message-ID: <1991May30.094549.20959@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 30 May 91 09:45:49 GMT
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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.
> 
> Do windows executables have an unusual structure, which is not recognized by
> earlier versions of Norton's SD?
 If you are running windows 3.0 in 386 enh mode you are probably using a
swap disk and
more likely, this one is PERMANENT. This means its unmovable and NU SD
will identify it
as such. A good idea is to get rid of this permanent swap file before
optimizing the disk.
Then, after optimalization, re-create it.

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