I also have backup software running that does complete drive imaging so I should be able to do this fairly safely. Here is the plan...

1) Shut down the Diskeeper service, run a query that is write heavy and then pull the chord on the box. Wait a few minutes then plug it back in and see if it recovers.
2) Leave Diskeeper running and repeat the above...

Comments/suggestions? If I'm going to do this I'd like to make sure I do it correctly so it will be useful for the group.

Do it more than once.  This is a highly erratic test that can catch your system 
at a wide variety of points, some of which cause no problems, and some of which 
can be catastrophic.  If you test and it fails, you know you have a problem.  
If you test and it doesn't fail, you don't know much.  It's only when you've 
tested a number of times without failure that you've gained any real knowledge.

Craig

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