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- Subject: Re: Norton's Speed Disk
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.124545.203@doc.bmd.trw.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 12:45:45 MST
- References: <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> <1992Jul20.234952.13740@walter.cray.com> <phfrom.187@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1992Jul22.011419.27723@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul22.011419.27723@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, ignasiak@convex.cl.msu.edu (Todd J. Ignasiak) writes:
- > phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Jul20.234952.13740@walter.cray.com> 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
- >
- >>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 you are running Windows 3.1 it is very likely that you are encountering
- the hidden swap file, spart.386 (or some such name). It's huge, but harmless.
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- Jay Cliburn
-