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December 21st 04, 12:06 AM
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Unmovable cluster
This is merely a casual interest: What are the general contents of the
many unmovable clusters on my hard drive, and why are they unmovable? In the days of 20Mb hard drives, I had a DOS disk organizer program that would permit you to move any cluster to any unoccupied slot. Just for fun, I moved the few unmovable clusters to the end of the disk. Everything worked perfectly. I never looked to see what was in them. -- butter'd buns - A woman that has just layn with another man. - B. E.'s Dictionary of the Canting Crew, 1699, from _Forgotten English_ by Jeffrey Kacirk 
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December 21st 04, 02:23 AM
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There's no technical reason that a file should be unmovable - it's just a
conservative feature of defrag designed to ensure that other programs don't get confused by the file being moved. Specific clusters might be unmovable. See a description he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=100013 Defrag Reports Unmovable Block Without Any Hidden/System Files http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=97109 Defrag Sees Several Megabytes of Unmovable Blocks http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=103555 Defrag Treats Lost Clusters as Unmovable Blocks -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Bernard W. Joseph" wrote in message ... This is merely a casual interest: What are the general contents of the many unmovable clusters on my hard drive, and why are they unmovable? In the days of 20Mb hard drives, I had a DOS disk organizer program that would permit you to move any cluster to any unoccupied slot. Just for fun, I moved the few unmovable clusters to the end of the disk. Everything worked perfectly. I never looked to see what was in them. -- butter'd buns - A woman that has just layn with another man. - B. E.'s Dictionary of the Canting Crew, 1699, from _Forgotten English_ by Jeffrey Kacirk
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December 21st 04, 02:23 AM
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Unmovable cluster
There's no technical reason that a file should be unmovable - it's just a
conservative feature of defrag designed to ensure that other programs don't get confused by the file being moved. Specific clusters might be unmovable. See a description he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=100013 Defrag Reports Unmovable Block Without Any Hidden/System Files http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=97109 Defrag Sees Several Megabytes of Unmovable Blocks http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=103555 Defrag Treats Lost Clusters as Unmovable Blocks -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Bernard W. Joseph" wrote in message ... This is merely a casual interest: What are the general contents of the many unmovable clusters on my hard drive, and why are they unmovable? In the days of 20Mb hard drives, I had a DOS disk organizer program that would permit you to move any cluster to any unoccupied slot. Just for fun, I moved the few unmovable clusters to the end of the disk. Everything worked perfectly. I never looked to see what was in them. -- butter'd buns - A woman that has just layn with another man. - B. E.'s Dictionary of the Canting Crew, 1699, from _Forgotten English_ by Jeffrey Kacirk
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December 21st 04, 07:18 PM
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Jeff Richards wrote:
There's no technical reason that a file should be unmovable - it's just a conservative feature of defrag designed to ensure that other programs don't get confused by the file being moved. Specific clusters might be unmovable. See a description he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=100013 Defrag Reports Unmovable Block Without Any Hidden/System Files http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=97109 Defrag Sees Several Megabytes of Unmovable Blocks http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=103555 Defrag Treats Lost Clusters as Unmovable Blocks Many thanks. Will check the resources listed. -- "And, what with one man's fish and a dozen men's poisson, " - _Finnegans Wake_, James Joyce
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December 21st 04, 07:18 PM
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Unmovable cluster
Jeff Richards wrote:
There's no technical reason that a file should be unmovable - it's just a conservative feature of defrag designed to ensure that other programs don't get confused by the file being moved. Specific clusters might be unmovable. See a description he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=100013 Defrag Reports Unmovable Block Without Any Hidden/System Files http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=97109 Defrag Sees Several Megabytes of Unmovable Blocks http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=103555 Defrag Treats Lost Clusters as Unmovable Blocks Many thanks. Will check the resources listed. -- "And, what with one man's fish and a dozen men's poisson, " - _Finnegans Wake_, James Joyce
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