Re: Much damage?

MassiveProng <MassiveProng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Where do you guys get the idea that a good OS should not be able to
handle this common occurrence?

The NTFS file system seems (in my experience) to handle this
circumstance very well. The few times I've had it happen, the computer
simply started on the next boot as though nothing had happened. Of
course, anything in RAM at the time of the power failure was lost, but
the disks were just fine.

The FAT32 file system *never* worked that well. If the power failed,
the next boot would involve a disk scan, which could take a long time.

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Tim Slattery
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