When my computer was idling, it turns into black screen and then the blue screen of death came up with the error code INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR. After the computer rebooted, I open the application for notepad and paint and I found that two unsaved notepad and several unsaved paint files were gone despite they were all properly recovered when windows automatically restarted for update a while ago.
Is it still possible to recover the files?
No, because there's no files to recover. If you open a file in Notepad or Paint, the file is uploaded to your RAM memory and all changes are made to the copy in RAM. When the computer crashes the RAM are wiped clean.
When windows automatically restarts it's not a crash, but a controlled restart and windows actually saves all microsoft files for you. As both notepad and paint are microsoft programs, windows will save these for you. If you had used a non-microsoft program, like GIMP, the work wouln'd been saved.
