Windows stuck in loading up after thunderstorm

[minibyte]

Hello,

I'm in the Midwest and thunderstorms are quite common out in this area. To protect my computer from power surges, I turn off BOTH my computer and the power supply. Then I unplug the surge protector from the socket which the computer and other peripherals are attached to.

However, this morning when I plugged back the surge protector, turned on the PSU and then computer, Windows gave me a message the there was no virtual disk and then it went to a blank screen and got stuck there.

To fix it, I just powered off the computer and powered it back on again, and it rebooted quickly as usual. But I find the issue a bit odd. Do any of you know what the problem was? Was it because I should have given it more time after turning the power supply on, and then turning the computer back on?

I'd rather not turn off/unplug my computer so frequently because I don't think that is good either, but it's better than letting lightning "strike it." I am so careful that I watch the thunderstorm online map everday and pay attention to the weather

 

[Proximon]

Your computer was not actually off, but probably in sleep mode. So when you cut the power it interrupted that. It sounds as if you may be using Hybrid Sleep, which saves the system state to disk.