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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 06:59:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   windows 10 won't let you defrag floppy drives.
   this is oppression

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 07:02:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     even freedos defrag in DOSBox won't work!

     probably because it's trying to do low-level access and DOSBox isn't giving it that level of access.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 07:12:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Christopher :coffefied:

     @Christopher nah. from the command line it seems like it does something, but from looking at the drive head, it does nothing

   • Christopher :coffefied: (christopher@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 07:12:09 JST Christopher :coffefied:

     in reply to

     @foone

     Not even from the command prompt?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 07:41:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jonas

     @magnetic_tape that is dosbox-x

   • Jonas (magnetic_tape@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 07:41:46 JST Jonas

     in reply to

     @foone
     Did you try with DOSBox-X?

   • Michelle Hughes (megamichelle@a2mi.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 05:41:39 JST Michelle Hughes

     in reply to

     @foone

     Gotta defrag those drives manually!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 05:41:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Michelle Hughes

     @MegaMichelle lemme just move these 2,880 sectors around manually, with a magnetized pair of tweezers