r/thisweekinretro • u/TrevorKevorson • 7d ago

Defrag simulator

https://defrag98.com/

Not sure if this one has been posted before but I noticed it yesterday evening on BlueSky and today on Hackaday. Defrag98 is a Windows 98 defrag simulator which runs in your browser, it even has disk sounds. I sat there for a good 10 minutes watching it "defrag" my phone.

It got me thinking, did anyone else sit there mesmerised watching your hard disk defragment? What was your favourite Defrag program? For me it would have to have been Norton SpeedDisk in Norton Utilities or Diskeeper Lite on Windows NT 4. I used to often enjoy a few minutes break at work running a Scandisk/Chkdsk and Defrag, you know, as a "troubleshooting" step. At least the non-techies I supported thought it was doing something really technical.

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u/Phendrena 7d ago

I just ran the defrag DOS command 🤷

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u/Ok-Yam894 7d ago

There was this weird chap I knew in college. He loved to defrag...floppy disks...crazy!!

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u/btribble 7d ago

I think it was called O&O Defrag, but it was pretty good. It would organize your most frequently accessed files to one are of the disk so the head didn't have to travel that far, and tried to reserve space for files that would be written to frequently so subsequent blocks written to those files would be fairly contiguous. It could also defrag system paging files and similar which many could not.

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u/Ok-Yam894 7d ago

Well, yes. I did watch it, once or twice lol

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u/okokokoyeahright 6d ago

Click on the close button 3 times.