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Sudden power failure in the whole house, will it damage my hard drive?

buklu
By buklu
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As long as they don't happen often you should be fine.

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a hardrives default state has the needle parked so the drive should be ok.

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i'm pretty sure hard drives will still park the head in a power loss situation.

 

on that note, the biggest (only?) issue with unexpected power loss on a computer is that if any software is 'saving' data at that time, that data will most likely be corrupted. this includes your operating system as well.

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18 minutes ago, buklu said:

my idiot little brother

dont worry, its true unsaved work might go to waste, but your saved data is still saved.

 

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27 minutes ago, buklu said:

my idiot little brother

Everyone makes mistakes 🙂

 

You're only an idiot if you don't learn from them

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