Power Failure During Defrag!

[jimbo]

In the middle of defragging my "C" drive the power failed for about 40
minutes. No UPS of course. After power returned, the computer boots OK
and everything looks OK. BUT, what would be a worst case scenario? Is
there a corrupted file lurking somewhere? Or a corrupted registry
entry? Should I use an available backup and start fresh?

Thanks for any advice, jimbo

 

[C A Upsdell]

In the middle of defragging my "C" drive the power failed for about 40
minutes. No UPS of course. After power returned, the computer boots OK
and everything looks OK. BUT, what would be a worst case scenario? Is
there a corrupted file lurking somewhere? Or a corrupted registry entry?
Should I use an available backup and start fresh?

Depends on your defrag software, perhaps. Fifteen years ago something
somewhat similar happened to me -- at nighttime the cleaning staff would
routinely unplug my PC to plug in their vacuum cleaner, all while my PC
was doing an overnight defrag using Norton's software -- and I lost
nothing, ever.