Computer stopped unexpectedly (was: Re: No Subject)

[Wade Smart]

It was just OFF. No shut down. And it happened fast - as in I looked away
 from my computer and then .. just nothing. 

It is a desktop and I did check all the cables - nothing wrong that power, 
and very clean. I was really happy about that. 

I got some unexpected help from a soccer mate of mine who works at
Verzion. He is more of a unix guy - lot more command line stuff than 
anything Ive ever done. My backup partition on the second drive shows
NTFS and 0 files. He had me install and run testdisk - which did not bring
promising results at all. 


Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63 Partition Start End 
Size in sectorsD HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 32508 16 20 522240000 [Old_Files]
Now Im running photorec and writing to folder on the main drive. It says 
estimated time to 
complete is around 13hours so.. I should know if something can be recovered 
by then.



On Sunday 04 January 2026 01:59:17 PM (-06:00), Karl Auer wrote:

 > On Sun, 2026-01-04 at 18:13 +0000, Wade Smart wrote:
 > > Last night while watching a youtube video all of the sudden my
 > > computer just shut down.
 > 
 > Did it shut down, or just die? I.e., did it seem to shut down in an
 > orderly fashion, or did it just - stop?
 > 
 > Assuming the latter, and if it's a desktop, I would check the power
 > cable at both ends or even replace it. And re-seat internal connections
 > and cards etc if you are up to it.
 > 
 > Could also be a hardware fault or overheating. Could be a blocked,
 > dirty or failed fan, too much dust, or failed thermal paste between the
 > heat sink and the CPU.
 > 
 > > It was fine until about 20 min ago when I started to work I my
 > > secondary drive cant be accessed.
 > 
 > I'll be interested in what other suggestions people have, but if it
 > were my drive I would replace it and restore the data from backup.
 > 
 > Regards, K.
 > 
 > -- 
 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 > Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au, he/him)
 > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
 > 
 > 
 > 

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