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Friendly reminder to never forcebly shutdown your PC (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sourcepie@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk..

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[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

What filesystem are you using? Filesystems should be crash consistent these days.

[-] sourcepie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My filesystem was NTFS

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you haven't tried it already, you could run chkdsk to see if the filesystem needs repairing. You can do it from the command-line^[1] or also through the drive properties > Tools > Check button.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk?tabs=event-viewer

chkdsk
/f 	Fixes errors on the disk. The disk must be locked. If chkdsk cannot lock the drive, a message appears 
        that asks you if you want to check the drive the next time you restart the computer.

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