About files corruption

[Tamarisk]

Someone know about problems which can be caused due abruptly restarting?
Windows not responding, due some program hungs up. Run IE, and some other
applications on background(antivirus) at this moment. Then do Restart. How
to be sure that this did not caused any hard disk errors and files
corruptions, due to improperly shutting down? At first look I did not find
any visible problems. But need to be sure that restarting have not caused
any file or HDD damages, even
small. Which files can possible get corruptions? Files of programs that was
active at the restarting moment, or any files stored somewhere on
hardrive( exe, mp3, rar, etc)?


Regards

 

[Bob I]

If there was a problem with an NTFS drive, the drive dirty bit gets set,
and the drive will self check on startup. If you have Fat32 drives, just
run Error checking/Chkdsk in Drive properties/Tools.

 

[Poprivet]

Someone know about problems which can be caused due abruptly
restarting? Windows not responding, due some program hungs up. Run
IE, and some other applications on background(antivirus) at this
moment. Then do Restart. How to be sure that this did not caused any
hard disk errors and files corruptions, due to improperly shutting
down? At first look I did not find any visible problems. But need to
be sure that restarting have not caused any file or HDD damages, even
small. Which files can possible get corruptions? Files of programs
that was active at the restarting moment, or any files stored
somewhere on hardrive( exe, mp3, rar, etc)?


Regards

Any file can become corrupted but it's most often going to be a system file.
Run CHKDSK /f on each drive you have. You'll have to reboot to get it to
run on the boot drive: It will instruct you when you run it.

 

[Tamarisk]

If there was a problem with an NTFS drive, the drive dirty bit gets set,
and the drive will self check on startup. If you have Fat32 drives, just
run Error checking/Chkdsk in Drive properties/Tools. ------
Tamarisk wrote:

 

[Haggis]

normally ..yes

you can run the check manually go to "harddisk" properties> tools>error
checking.

normally files that are in memory or in use would be the only ones affected
by a bad shutdown..

hth

 

[Bob I]

That would indicate that there were no problems caused by THAT shutdown.
You could have problems from something else. You may check your drives
as indicated above, if so desired.