Safely reboot prior to recovering data
- by ELO
What is the safest (without additional writing to the disk) way to power down computer whose deleted files you want to recover in order to boot from rescue medium?
In case of a desktop computer, plugging off the power cord looks like the most direct solution, but are there possible side-effects, apart from losing unsaved data? More problematic seems the laptop, with removing the battery being the equivalent, but is it a good idea overall?