J.J. said:


Does anyone have a reference to HDDs getting corrupted by power
events on the mains power supply?


Happened here. Power surge, while I was working on a MS-Word document.

Returned, Windows booted, but crashed at the desktop, so I entered using a Win98
boot disk and ran Scandisk.

2 or 3 bad blocks, and some files/Windows' registry were corrupted.

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