I'm sorry for this post since it is in the wrong place but there is no other place for me to get help. Anyways, I accidentally pressed the off button on my surge protector which my PC is plugged into and was running while this happened. I was watching something on YouTube when this occurred. I turned it on again and my PC took a while longer to boot up. Everything thing seems to run normally and it botted at normal speed when I turned it on and off but I'm worried something might be damaged. It was a Lenovo PC on Windows 10. Could damage have occurred to my PC?
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Power cut from PC while it was running
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It's probably fine. The only harm that can happen is when the data in the hard drive's buffer is not written to the disk before power is lost and filesystem inconsistencies occur. That's why it takes longer to boot; the OS is checking each filesystem and repairing it if necessary. Modern filesystems are generally good about this kind of thing and there's a pretty small chance something bad happened. A normal shutdown procedure forces a write of all data in the buffer to the disk before shutting it down.
When you have time issue this command: chkdsk /f/r. This command forces a full disk scan and will take while to execute.
I just tried that in command prompt but it says access denied and I have insufficient privileges and I need to be in elevated mode.
Figured it out, but after I restarted, it went straight to 10% and has stayed there for about 30 minutes
It's been almost 2 hours and it still is at 10%
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I left it for about 10 minutes and came back to it booted up. Do you guys think its finished. I want to restore my iPhone 6s in case the jailbreak comes out soon, but I'm worried something in the data transfer process might go wrong. Am I safe?
You're fine ... Whilst its possible to lose data that had not been saved, or if installing windows updates that it may corrupt the update by turning off power prematurely, there is 99.9 % of the time very little damage caused. Powercuts happen (whether accidental or not) and its normal for windows 10 to take a little longer to boot after a powercut as it automatically runs checks on data integrity. You are back up and running, so just enjoy and stop fretting.
So I'm perfectly ok to restore my iPhone with iTunes?You're fine ... Whilst its possible to lose data that had not been saved, or if installing windows updates that it may corrupt the update by turning off power prematurely, there is 99.9 % of the time very little damage caused. Powercuts happen (whether accidental or not) and its normal for windows 10 to take a little longer to boot after a powercut as it automatically runs checks on data integrity. You are back up and running, so just enjoy and stop fretting.
Yes. Restoring in iTunes will download latest firmware fresh if there is anything wrong with previously downloaded version if you have one, if not it will download fresh regardless. Restoring from a backup in iTunes should be ok again assuming you were'nt backing up at the exact time you turned the power off.
Essentially you should be good to go. Any issues you can always force phone into DFU mode and that will likewise force iTunes to download new firmware and restore phone regardless.
If you run into problems, its unlikely anything to do from the power cut.
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