oh dear god not my hard drive

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hi i have just installed a new harddrive into my computer but droped it about 5cms with quite alot of force now nothing snapped just scared the hell out of me!!! and i cant try it out because im waiting ona motherboard but do you think itll be ok or have i just royaly screwed up!
any advise will be a god send
Thanks
Rob
 
5 cm shouldn't have done much, what surface did you drop it on?

and do you hear anything move if you turn it around?

nothing shouldn't have happened
 
It's unlikely to do any major damage but i would be suprised if there weren't a few new bad sectors on the hard-drive after the fall. You should run a full surface scan on it as soon as you get it into a computer to check it out.
 
its the ledgend again! on the bottom of my empty computer case and no nothing lose thank god! can you recomend me a good processar and motherboard and graphics card cos i dnt no to much about them 3 and would like to have a gd one but not a 6 figure sum lol
 
ThePenguinCometh said:
It's unlikely to do any major damage but i would be suprised if there weren't a few new bad sectors on the hard-drive after the fall. You should run a full surface scan on it as soon as you get it into a computer to check it out.
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What oh no does that mean im buggered? i cant recover bad sectors how would that happen at only 5cms? oh crap so theres nottin i can do now?
 
Please make your posts more legible, or they will be removed.

It does not mean you are 'buggered', but it would be advisable to run a disk check as soon as you are able to. This will let you know at an early stage if anything is wrong, rather than after you make use of the disk, possibly risking important files.
 
Waffle said:
Please make your posts more legible, or they will be removed.

It does not mean you are 'buggered', but it would be advisable to run a disk check as soon as you are able to. This will let you know at an early stage if anything is wrong, rather than after you make use of the disk, possibly risking important files.
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ok sorry but how do i know that it didnt get dropped at the store or at the factory made? when i run disk check after it finishes on my old hdd it disapears it doesnt tell me if any are wrong or faulty am i doing anything wrong
 
If the program you are using doesn't report anything then that's probably a good sign. However it should be possible to generate a report once it is finished that you should look at. When you run the program there should be a reporting option that is probably set to report only when it encounters errors, change it to always report and make sure that you are doing a full surface scan and not just a quick check.

By the way having a few bad sectors is not really a big deal, it just means that there are a few areas of the drive that are physically damaged and can't be used however any data that was in those sectors will now be unusable so you may get lost data or corrupted programs. On the other hand if there are a lot of bad sectors then it's often a sign that your hard-drive is on the way out and needs to be replaced. Run the surface scan and if there is any physical damage then those areas will be marked as out-of-bounds and you can continue to use the drive as normal but I would run the check again a week or two later to ensure that no new bad sectors are appearing. My guess is though that your hard-drive is still OK and quite usable.
 
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