How I crashed my computer

This isn't really a problem but it's something i was trying to find out. I was on our old computer and it froze up. Instead of turning it off using the power switch on the front of the computer, I used the switch that goes to the power outlet in which the computer was plugged.Then when I rebooted the computer, everything on the hard drive was deleted and the screen with the OS start/configuration setting came up.We had to have a friend reinstall all the programs and software again. How come when I flipped the outlet switch, it crashed our computer like this?

This question was answered on November 9, 2004. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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The best thing you should of done was hit Control Alt Delete and click end task By you unplugging the computer outlet, the hard drive didn't have a chance to save any of your programs and possibly wipedout critical files on the hard drive.

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Posted by Kareem of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on November 9, 2004

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