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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[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

That’s not how PCs work. Once you’ve downloaded the data, it’s on your hard drive, not the RAM. This sounds very much like you’ve experienced hard drive failure.

[-] sourcepie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It actually might be, because now a magic file appeared on my hard drive (a file that was once deleted) that I can't delete. When I try to delete it, even with admin rights, it says No such file or directory

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