From: "Natman" <natman AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Borland 4.5 C/C++ compiler problem
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:44:33 -0600
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As far as I know "unmoveable" means that the file is in use and is "locked".
Close the file that is in question and the sectors will be moveable again...
(or just boot with a plain boot disk).

Natman


"JohnT" <jrt AT inXSformatics DOT net> wrote in message
news:39B4FA72 DOT 4943D810 AT inXSformatics DOT net...
>
> Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > On 13 Aug 2000 12:47:03 GMT, d021317c AT dc DOT seflin DOT org (Marshall Price)
> > wrote:
> >
> > >  32 is such a *large* number!
> > >  Besides, I discovered DEFRAG was reporting more and more of my hard
> > >drive "unmovable."  When I got away from DJGPP and CWSDPMI and GO32 (or
> > >*something*), I stopped having those problems.
> >
> > This is strange.  comp.os.msdos.djgpp added
> >
> > --
> > Damian Yerrick
>
> I was browsing around comp.os.msdos.djgpp and found the problem
> of parts of the disk being marked "unmoveable". I'm not sure, but
> think this may be due to DOS sessions running under Windows and
> getting some kind of undocumented crap written to files or clusters
> by Windows. My system had two hard drives for a while, one used
> as backup, and I would get rid of the unmoveable clusters by doing
> a backup, reformat and copying all the files back. The exact flag
> that causes the "unmoveable" designation I don't know about, but
> documented file attributes don't have a bit that means "unmoveable".
> Anyone got a good guess on this?
>
> I think one of the programs that causes this is a DOS text editor,
> not part of DJGPP.
>
> John
>
>