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slow system hdd performance after a unexpected shutdown
This is something I have seen occur multiple times in 17 years of using windows, after a unexpected shutdown windows i/o performance slows right down and I still dont have the answer to it.
Today I accidently cut the power to my pc, so windows didnt crash it just lost power.
Windows took about twice as long to boot.
After it had booted the system hdd was very busy doing I dont know why (wasnt superfetch or virus scanning). The i/o was used by the system process.
Outlook took a looooong time to open. it then also took a very long time to close deleting the deleted emails which are usually way faster.
Internet explorer took about 2 minutes to restore crashed tabs which was massive disk i/o.
Opening tiny apps where the hdd light either flashes very briefly or doesnt come on at all have a noticeable 1-2 sec delay with the light on solid.
I expect after a manual defrag things will be back to normal.
Dos all the prefetch data get trashed on a unexpected shutdown or something?