My room's circuit breaker got switched and my PC turned off with it. Is it okay?

Sammyjo201 · Jun 30, 2016

My brother was getting annoyed with me so he turned off the circuit breaker to my bedroom, which has my PC in and it was running, like it does completely fine and as I heard him say "im turning off the power" I decided to do a shut down on my PC but it didn't finish the whole shut-down process and it turned off. Is my PC going to be okay? It booted fine and it's a couple of days after and I don't see any speed differences or anything, the SSD runs fine and the HDD runs fine. I just worry a bit.

Do you guys think it's okay?

Thanks

techgeek · Jun 30, 2016

If you didn't have any issues booting up afterwards, then you will be fine.

With power downs occurring before a system is shutdown properly, you can have file and OS corruption if Windows had cached a write and hadn't gotten around to actually writing the data to disk before the power loss. This is more prevalent with HDD's as they are much slower and thus more prone to having writes cached due to the OS being busy.

If you are really concerned, you could try this:

Open an elevated command prompt (run as Administrator) and type:

sfc /scannow

This will scan the system files for corruption. If it finds any it will attempt to replace the corrupted files.

In all likelihood though, you are fine. If the system was going to act up, it would have done it on the first boot after the power interruption.

Sammyjo201 · Jun 30, 2016

Thanks. All it did the first boot up again was that it was pretty slow. But when I rebooted again it was fine

ImranKhan1992 · Jun 30, 2016

Its your HDD data which prone to sudden power failures. Windows system data may get corrupt which may lead to overall system failing to boot.
Having an inexpensive 15$ UPS comes in handy during such situations.

Sammyjo201 · Jun 30, 2016

techgeek :

Does this mean my PC is fine then?

techgeek · Jun 30, 2016

Everything is fine, there were no integrity violations found.

Sammyjo201 · Jun 30, 2016

Thanks

techgeek · Jul 1, 2016

No problem, glad we could set your mind at ease.

As to the slow boot the first time, it's likely that Windows did a check on your files when it seen that it hadn't been shut down properly.

Sammyjo201 · Jul 1, 2016

Yeah, that's what I assumed

Seems to be running fine now. I do find though that after I do things like virus scans and stuff, it takes a day or so to speed back up to how it was before but It's not a huge difference to be honest.

Thanks again mate

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