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Originally Posted by Xist
...none of the other computer repair people responded directly to the original suggestion, that the hard drive moved its read heads in anticipation of a crash.
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Maybe because it's likely that the hard drive was actually powered off at the time. Unless you're running a program that does a lot of disk I/O, the OS typically reads the program into memory, then shuts off the hard drive to save power.
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Obviously, that power button only has one job, and fails.
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Shut it down with the shutdown command - I'm not sure of the Windoze equivalent, but I think it's on the "Start Menu". That makes sure everything in memory is properly saved to disk &c.