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- From: ignasiak@convex.cl.msu.edu (Todd J. Ignasiak)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Norton's Speed Disk
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.011419.27723@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 01:14:19 GMT
- References: <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> <1992Jul20.234952.13740@walter.cray.com> <phfrom.187@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
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- phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul20.234952.13740@walter.cray.com> bdavis@cray.com (Brent G Davis) writes:
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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?)
- >>>
-
- >>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:
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- >> chkdsk /f
-
- >Since probably you have all the Norton util's, you may also use the
- >Norton Disk Doctor (NDD) for this job.
-
- They are not necessarily lost files. If you have hidden files, or a hidden
- directory, all the files in that hidden directory are marked as unmovable
- blocks. I believe some of the other norton utilities will tell you if you
- have any hidden directories, I think a program such as file-find (ff) will
- parse hidden directories.
-
- If it is 1/4 of your hard drive, then it's most likely not just hidden files
- causing the problem. But it's probably wise to check all possibilities
- before running a bunch of disk recovery programs.
-
- tji
-
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- * Todd Ignasiak ignasiak@convex.cl.msu.edu *
- * Michigan State University East Lansing, MI *
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