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- From: bdavis@cray.com (Brent G Davis)
- Subject: Re: Norton's Speed Disk
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.234952.13740@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: Cray Research Inc., Chippewa Falls, WI
- References: <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 20 Jul 92 23:49:52 CDT
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- In article <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET writes:
- >Norton's Speed Disks tells me that over a quarter of my harddisk
- >contains unmovable blocks.
- >Does anyone know what's wrong? (Norton? My Hard Disk?)
- >
- >Frans (a735fjo@hasara11.bitnet)
- >
- >
- >
-
- You indeed have unmovable lost files on your hard disk. Don't worry,
- it's quite easy to recover this space. Just use the following:
-
- chkdsk /f
-
- This should convert those lost files into readable (deletable) files.
-
- This has happened to a machine I was installing Windows 3.0 on. Somehow
- the Windows directory became a Disk Drive with 30 Terabytes of memory!!!
- All of the files inside it became lost sectors. The chkdsk fixed it,
- but I would still like to find that extra disk space! :-)
-
- Brent
-
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- | Brent G. Davis | I'm designing the MIDI ports for |
- | Systems Test Engineer | our Supercomputers! ;-) *NOT* |
- | CRI, Chippewa Falls, WI +----------------------------------+
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