Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:13591 comp.os.msdos.misc:2352 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cc.curtin.edu.au!cutmcvax!campbell From: campbell@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Trevor George Campbell CC361) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 08:35:41 GMT References: <10545@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May28.140354.446@sc2a.unige.ch> <1991May29.003641.3213@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Usenet News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au mjf@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michael J Flory) writes: >As I recall, Norton Speed Disk (quite properly) marks a permanent swapfile >as unmovable. Unless you have a HUGE swapfile this wouldn't explain why >almost yr whole disk was unmovable, but it could be part of it. You didn't >try to run SD WITHIN Windows, did you??? (That could have very undesirable >results, I understand...) From my understanding of the windows manual, windows will only use (at most) half of the free space on a disk for a permenent swapfile. And further, that space must be continuous (or is that contiguous) ie: in one huge block, and not fragmented. I would support the idea of system/hidden files somewhere on the disk, as the only time i have seen many (ie: more than about 2-3) unmovable blocks it has been due to system/hidden files. -- Trevor alias <****> tuo em tel esaelP ,lanimret siht edisni kcuts m`I pleH ( for all of you out there who can't read backwards..... Help i'm stuck inside this terminal, Please let me out )