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What happens to your computer when you unplug it while its on?
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∙ 13y ago
firstly there is software damage, some software likes to save things to hard drive as they go, then clean up this save file when the program is closed. if this close process isn't observed, then bad data can be left saved, which can muck up your operating system.
secondly and more important there's the hardware damage. your hard drive has a sharp metal bit (the reader) levitating on a cushion of magnetism, holding it away from a thin layer of rapidly spinning metal (thinner than tin foil). when you shut down a computer, one of the last things it does is tell the reader to sit on a special stirrup, so that when the magnetism it is balancing on powers down the reader doesn't hit the metal, and in doing so grind a horrible, data killing scrape into your hard drive.
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