[Lazarus] Offtopic: Win8 shut down doesnt really shut down (Re: Obtaining uptime)

[Kovács László]

This is offtopic now, not related to lazarus, but better be aware.
That behavior of Win8 caused data loss for me.
Once I needed to copy hundreds of GB-s, so removed the HDD from a win8 
machine after thinking it has shut down.
Placing that HDD in my Win7 desktop and right after start it ran chkdsk, 
because it detected something broken because of an unclean shutdown.
I could skip this chkdsk if I knew about, but after switching on the 
win7 machine my attention was at a different point.
Just noticed the running chkdsk when it almost finished.
Most of the file were gone...
Thanks God, testdisk was able to restore most of the lost files, but not 
all.

Thanks for reading.

Regards
Laszlo Kovacs

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Elküldött elemek: 2014.08.06. 22:14:10
Tárgy Re: [Lazarus] Obtaining uptime
>On 06.08.2014 21:15, Richard Mace wrote:
>>Hi Sven,
>>I'm amazed! Sure enough, if I choose "restart" the uptime reads 0 
>>days,
>>and yet, shutdown doesn't actually shut it down!
>
>Yes, Windows only shuts down the user session till only the bare core 
>of the OS is remaining and then goes to hibernate. This allows for a 
>much faster resume than full shutdown. So they say... ;)
>
>Here is a link which explains how to achieve a full shut down: 
>http://www.howtohaven.com/system/how-to-shutdown-windows-8.shtml (after 
>the section title "How to Really Shut Down Windows 8")
>
>Regards,
>Sven
>
>
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