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Here in Florida, we've had lots of power fluctionations and
power outages lately.
I visited a customer who lost power during the last hurricane.
It now seems that the single event of power outage corrupted
his disk drives data (such that the directory structure in the
\windows sub-tree on a Win-XP system was scrambled).
Note that no lightning was involved...just a simple loss of
power from the power company.
We had to re-format the drive had re-install everything
(i.e. the OS and all 3rd party software, etc).
I was somewhat surprised that the disk did NOT seem to
suffer any permanent damage. (I say this based on the
fact that the formatter ran thru the disk ok with no apparent
errors, tho I suppose there could now be 'bad blocks' generated.)
So, questions are:
(1) Is it reasonable to 'trust' that the disk is ok to use again?
(2) Is this sort of event (scrambling a disk's structure/data)
from power cutoff at all common?
(3) Are all such power-interruptions mostly equivalent, in
the size of the voltage/amperage 'spikes' that get generated?
TIA...
Dave
Here in Florida, we've had lots of power fluctionations and
power outages lately.
I visited a customer who lost power during the last hurricane.
It now seems that the single event of power outage corrupted
his disk drives data (such that the directory structure in the
\windows sub-tree on a Win-XP system was scrambled).
Note that no lightning was involved...just a simple loss of
power from the power company.
We had to re-format the drive had re-install everything
(i.e. the OS and all 3rd party software, etc).
I was somewhat surprised that the disk did NOT seem to
suffer any permanent damage. (I say this based on the
fact that the formatter ran thru the disk ok with no apparent
errors, tho I suppose there could now be 'bad blocks' generated.)
So, questions are:
(1) Is it reasonable to 'trust' that the disk is ok to use again?
(2) Is this sort of event (scrambling a disk's structure/data)
from power cutoff at all common?
(3) Are all such power-interruptions mostly equivalent, in
the size of the voltage/amperage 'spikes' that get generated?
TIA...
Dave