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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>
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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?



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