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- From: kak1@cypress31.cray.com (Kevin Kramer)
- Subject: Re: Norton's Speed Disk
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.091938.3246@hemlock.cray.com>
- Originator: kak1@cypress31
- Lines: 26
- Sender: kak1@cypress31 (Kevin Kramer)
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> <2A6C845F.25E2@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 22 Jul 92 09:19:38 CDT
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- In article <2A6C845F.25E2@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
- > 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)
- > >
- > Several things can make blocks unmovable. Hidden files, such as IO.SYS
- > (which should be left alone and hidden), lost clusters, and the file
- > used by 4DOS/NDOS (DESCRIPT.ION) for file descriptions all will be shown
- > as unmovable. If you wish, you can use the ATTRIB command to remove the
- > 'H' attribute. As for lost clusters, you should run the NDD program since
- > you have the Norton Utils.
- >
- > Scott
- >
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- If you run windows and use a permenent swap file, this is unmovable. That is
- usually quite a large file. (mine is 4 MB since I don't have enough RAM)
- Be sure to run chkdsk /F. It sounds like you may be getting a lot of lost
- clusters as well. (though 1/4 of a hrad drive is alot, unless it is a small
- drive)
-
- Kevin
-