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- From: rw@donner.Rational.COM (Bob Weissman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Norton's Speed Disk
- Message-ID: <rw.711827732@donner>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 17:55:32 GMT
- References: <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> <1992Jul20.234952.13740@walter.cray.com>
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- bdavis@cray.com (Brent G Davis) 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?)
- >
- >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.
-
- Warning: CHKDSK/F is dangerous. Do a normal CHKDSK first and see what
- it says. If you have lost clusters or crosslinked files, you'll be
- much better off using NDD instead of CHKDSK/F to fix them.
-
- Anyway, it's more likely your unmovable blocks are from hidden or
- readonly files. E.g., if you use 4DOS, you have hidden DESCRIPT.ION
- files all over the place, which SD thinks are unmoveable. You can use
- ATTRIB to un-hide them and then try running SD again.
-
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