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David Amadorrecorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.
Eric Vitiello@djlink Hello defrag my old friend
A Light Shining In Darkness
otter_linnus
martynpie@djlink as soothingly familiar as Winamp’s visualiser 😊
v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾@martynpie @djlink not a day goes by that i don't miss Winamp
@vitriolix @djlink I actually installed it on my work PC today because of the previous post. 😊 I mean I’ve got hardly any MP3s left to play, but it felt SO GOOD to have that little windowshade mode again.
Third spruce tree on the leftYeah, along with VLC its one of the few apps that hasn't #enshittified .
Tin Bee 🥫🐝
Morten Hilker-Skaaning@djlink "kind of blue" - win 95
R. Watson@djlink I can just hear canyon.mid playing in the background
/ᐠ. ᴗ.ᐟ\@djlink i think you should see this: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30759
Krystian Majewski@djlink Man, my internet will run so much faster once this is done
@krystman modem sounds: beep boop beep boooooopp beeeeeeee bi buuu biiiii brrrrrrr
Olaf Kolkman@djlink ohhhh thank you far this. It brings back memories of a hypnotic afternoons
Marx's Pert Derriere
Dashie
Shadow D. Wolf 
🏳️🌈@DMDash71 @skroggitz @olaf @djlink It looks like the disk was already defragmented recently, like maybe an hour or two ago. Also, this machine must have at least 32mb of RAM, because there wasn't a single "Drive contents changed, restarting..." message from it swapping to disk.
David@djlink my mind filled in the ka chookachuk sounds of the hard disk moving back and forth. I'm not even sure it really made much sound, but my in my head defrag had a specific sound to it...
Black Curtain Studio@djlink I can hear this Gif.
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@djlink omg, you have no idea how much I needed this right now
D1g1talDrag0n@djlink I really wish we could still visualize this in modern OS’s.
Karelt [KAI] 
@D1g1talDrag0n @djlink Sadly with the common use of SSD for storage nowdays, fragmentation doesn't really slow down a system anymore. Furthermore defragmentation is bad for an SSD's lifespan.
Heliograph
Luke Stockwell
eraitch@djlink Memories.....
Neil Gordon 
🇳🇿@djlink Ah, those were the days.
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
Raptor's Nest (He/Him)@djlink Thanks for reminding me. I forgot about defragging.
MaryJaneC@djlink good old days
Ashi Helvetica@djlink this brings back so many memories~
uditbhardwaj5@djlink This is the first time I have seen this and it looks so satisfying.
comrad 🇪🇺@djlink the MS-DOS defrag.exe was way more satisfying, imho.
Defrag running in MS-DOS 6.22 (ASMR)
Corax
mirabilos
Pierre Gab
Dec [{(
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I always used to restart in DOS mode before running chkdsk and then defrag.
Putting the swap on another partition helps too.
Switched to O&O Defrag (and got the company to pay for it) when the day job had me looking after more than 10 PCs. It can defrag at boot time.
It took me a long time to get my head around how the native filesystems in Linux and BSD don't need defrag, because they avoid fragmentation (at least until the free space runs out).
Anikke 🌻 🚴 🇺🇦🇬🇱 ♀️ #ichbinantifa@djlink
Oh, I've done it several times 😄
Oh, I've done it several times 😄
Marcel Geveler@djlink Always found it calming to watch the boxes being moved. I miss that :<
Nate Schaffner@djlink wow I needed this :)
Mohammad Javed@djlink i won't be staring at that for too long 😂
Peter Toft Jølving
stewart
Clemens@djlink Still needs the soothing sound of the write head on the hard disk moving back and forth to be realistic, though.
deutrino@neverpanic @djlink clearly somebody's gotta drag out an antique hard drive, write a script to fill it full of fragged files, and then record a 3 hour ASMR vid!
I'd do it, but the antiquest I've got is a 250GB which is probably well into the modern quiet era.
Glossy@djlink I don't understand why this was removed from future windows versions.
It was so relaxing to set this going, make a cup of tea then just sit there watching this while the pc chuntered away.
It was so relaxing to set this going, make a cup of tea then just sit there watching this while the pc chuntered away.
☑️ PressF1 (Vincent Tapia)@djlink that was pretty fast. Mine took longer to defrag back in the day because I had a 130 MB Maxtor 7000 series hard drive with 32kb integrated cache memory at the time. 😉
Matthew Skelton@djlink quality content!
mjc0961@djlink Thanks. I miss this. I used to just sit and watch the blocks back in the day.
Cruising Steveswijk@djlink https://youtu.be/jFbkujZ0OuI?si=hh1aveDPyMNUKvYd
Here, maybe y‘all want that to go with it. 😀
ASMR - 100% Defrag 200GB Seagate S-ATA Drive (Win98SE) - with Fan and Hard Disk Noise
Marcelo@djlink So satisfying!
Bradley Frank@djlink I can HEAR this. omg I’m old
Frigid Crystal Tormented Wrath
Vicente V. P.@djlink thank you
Dgar@djlink
*bam. Nostalgia hit.
*bam. Nostalgia hit.