Did I damage my external HDD ?

Yesterday, while setting up my desk, I bumped the desk a couple of times (very light desk), so the legs of the desk came up maybe a cm, and the desk fell down(the cm). Also, I knocked over the computer stereo remote that was standing next to the external 3.5" HDD,and it fell down on the HDD (it was off at the time; and had been off for a couple of months or so).

When I later started up the HDD, it woul not startup, like it was starting to spiin up, but it was not being able to do so. There were clicking sounds when it was trying to spin up. I opened up the enclosure to see if I had loosed any connector, put it back again, no change. I had resigned myseflllll to frying the HDD, and was doing something else; when after a while (5 mins or so), the disk spun up, and the data was available.

I have transferred the data (~200GB) to a new external HDD withut any problem.

What I'm wondering is whether the HDD itself has issues, or is it a problem with the enclosure ?

 

Clicking hard drive? Sounds like the heads got knocked out of place.
If it's working again, sweet. But I definitely wouldn't trust data on that drive again.
Oh, and it's the drive, not the enclosure.

 

Sounds like it could be both unless you try pair drive with a definitely working enclosure to rule one out.

 

I thought about that, but npw the enclosure+HDD is working, so I'm not sure the problem is reproduceable.

 

Hook the hard drive into a desktop (not via enclosure), and run the drive manufacturer's testing tools on it.

 

I dont have a desktop
So the manufacturers testing tools cant be run on drives iin enclosures ?

 

Is this a 2.5" or 3.5" drive?

My 2.5" Seagate sometimes doesn't receive enough power from a single USB and has clicking noises (drive trying to spin up). It only starts working when I plug in the extra USB power cord.

 

3.5" drive

 

Gah! I hate how sensitive hard drives are. I can't wait till SSD's come down more in price and start taking over hard drives.