As the title says I've had a power outage (no UPS) during a write operation to an external USB hard drive (it's a proper internal WD caviar drive, connected through an external USB 2.0 enclosure if that matters). I was creating an archive on that drive and also editing one particular file. Those were the ONLY operations for about 1 hour. I actually saved the file around 1 minute before the outage, but I still find it is now corrupted (probably not flushed by some write cache mechanism). My question is:
I do not care about those 2 files (the editable and the archive), as long as I can KNOW that no other damage was done to the file system. I have since run a Chkdsk and here are the results:
Checking file system in F:
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 3596 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 3596 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 3596 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
976760000 KB total disk space.
859163168 KB in 140566 files.
63236 KB in 7513 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
787532 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
116746064 KB available on disk.
4096 byte in each allocation unit.
244190000 total allocation units on disk.
29186516 allocation units available on disk.
I have also deleted the archive and will also delete the corrupt text file. IS there a way to KNOW what other damage might have been caused? Is there any way to settle my worries and concerns? I can work towards re-making the damaged files if any, but I really need to KNOW WHAT might have gone corrupt.
Please share if you have insight to offer!