Apps crashing: can this corrupt data on my hard drive?

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I'm using Windows XP sp 2 and I do all the usual maintenance (regular defrags etc) but I do sometimes get crashing in games and I remember reading somewhere that if an application crashes while Windows is writing to the hard disk it can corrupt the data on it, does anyone know if this is still the case and if so, what can be done about it?
 
Yep, I am using NTFS, and now that you mention it I think I remember reading that it's better at recovering from that kind of thing than FAT32, but I don't know whether I would have to run checkdisk to get that.
 
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OK, thanks people, I didn't know that about checkdisk starting automatically, it hasn't happened so I guess I'm OK. I think my RAM's OK too - I've only had crashes on one program, Unreal tournament 3, so it's probably just due to bugs in the game.
 
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