Accidently dropped external drive.

Dreadbeard · Aug 28, 2013

Hi guys, I just had a little accident, I dropped my external wd elements drive whilst my pc was powered down, I'm just wandering if it could have caused any issues at all?, it powered up ok, seems to access ok, games still there, and such, is there any way to tell if any damage was caused?

nukemaster · Aug 28, 2013

You should run a full surface scan with the western digital tools(HD tune can do this as well).

A drop can cause head crash(head to hit the platters) or other issues that may lead to data loss.

If it passes the self test, you may just be fine.

I would still keep an eye on it. I have seen drives get dropped(just a few feet in most cases) and live a normal life after.

Dreadbeard · Aug 28, 2013

It wasn't more then a foot drop I think, just off my guitar amp to the floor, "guitar amp doesn't get used often and when it does I move the hdd"

johnnyq1233 · Aug 28, 2013

If the hard drive was shut down properly, then the heads would have been "parked" off platter and you should not have problems.
The only other thing that could possibly happen is a connector come loose from the fall.
But, since it started ok and all files are working, pending any issues found with the WD tools (surface scan), I would say you're good to go.

Dreadbeard · Aug 28, 2013

Well, the entire pc was shut off when I dropped it, thus meaning no hdds were on at all, external one included.

I'm doing a hd tune scan now to see if it finds anything, but nothing shows up othe "health" tab.

I have noticed my internal drive whistling though, only since I removed my second internal, hd tune showed one yellow bar in health from what I saw.

nukemaster · Aug 28, 2013

I misread. I thought you said it was ON.

my bad, chances are very good for the drive.

If you want something better at reading SMART on a drive, check out CrystalDiskInfo
http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html#CrystalDiskInfo

What had the Yellow bar anyway?

Dreadbeard · Aug 29, 2013

Ok cool so the external passed the error scan.

The internal's yellow bar was something to do with "spin retry count", I'm not sure what that is, or where it's come from.

I'm hoping to change that hdd for a ssd soon anyway and install windows onto an ssd.

nukemaster · Aug 29, 2013

I would see what CrystalDiskInfo says just to back HDtune. The free version they offer is very old and out of date.

Bad/re-allocated sectors are the bad one.

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