I was using my notebook PC when all of a sudden I really smashed my desk (my leg still hurts, lol).

The laptop really took a ride there; screen wobbled back and forth, and the HDD made a weird noise. Sounded like the HDD slowed down for a second, then "click," and it sped back up to normal speed. The movie that was playing also paused for a second when the HDD made that noise.

I ran a couple tests after the incident, and there doesn't seem to be any HDD errors. Everyting's running normally, but I'm still a little worried. Did I hurt the poor thing enough that I should be concerned about backing up data? Or can notebook HDDs handle more (a lot more) shock than standard HDDs?

Pentium III--Descendant of Intel Core.
Pentium III-S 1400 @ 1.63GHz, 512K L2
X800XT AIW OC 580/600
2GB of RAM
250GB HD
SB Audigy 2
QDI Advance 12 mobo
Smugly running Vista

You should backup hdd data whatever.

I try and do this every week.

Remember there are two types of hdd.

Those that have failed and those that will fail.

Good Luck - Keep us Posted.

pgckkwvdzm, the hard drive area barely gets warm, as the CPU/chipset/gpu is on the other side of the notebook. I doubt heat is anything to be worried about.

Mike Newcomb, thanks for the reply. I guess I'll back it up tomorrow.

Pentium III--Descendant of Intel Core.
Pentium III-S 1400 @ 1.63GHz, 512K L2
X800XT AIW OC 580/600
2GB of RAM
250GB HD
SB Audigy 2
QDI Advance 12 mobo
Smugly running Vista

I wouldn't be too worried. I had a 40GB laptop hard drive that progressively got worse and worse until it wouldn't work anymore. When I managed to get my work off it I opened it up to check it out. I decided to power it up too heh, the second you touch anything the heads move straight to their parking positions. Once the disks are spinning at their correct speed again the heads go back and resume working. I would say your hard drive maby felt a slight shock and parked the heads before any damage was done. Yay!

*Images On*
Here is a pic of the heads parked this is my hard drive too, see if you can read my homework:

[IMG]http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/mattwizz3/HDD.jpg[/IMG]
PS: The hard drive is perfectly clean, just a dirty scanner ;]

Mattwizz3 :

Vista Home Basic
2.2GHz Sempron
1GB DDR400
GeForce 6800Ultra

The hard drive is perfectly clean, just a dirty scanner

Are you running a ultra-clean HD data recovery lab? If not is the HD still in good working condition?

i_XpUser

The way I read #3 the HD had already stopped working before the lid was removed.

DerekW

Mattwizz3, that's pretty interesting. So that click noise was probably just the unit parking its heads, and not the click of death. I wish desktop drives would do the same thing (or do they?).

Wonder why pgckkwvdzm's reply got removed?

Pentium III--Descendant of Intel Core.
Pentium III-S 1400 @ 1.63GHz, 512K L2
X800XT AIW OC 580/600
2GB of RAM
250GB HD
SB Audigy 2
QDI Advance 12 mobo
Smugly running Vista

"when all of a sudden I really smashed my desk"

Control grasshopper, control.

Laptop hard drives are no better in most cases than any home hard drive.
(unless you have a ruggedized model that uses a solid state hard drive)

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

heh, I actually pulled apart a old 12GB Fujitsu desktop hard drive the other day (Also dead) and it dosent park its head. when the drive is off the head goes to the center of the disks.

And yeah, the laptop drive was already dead. I actually could still use it with the cover off. but since the drive was already stuffed there wasn't much I could do.

Mattwizz3 :

Vista Home Basic
2.2GHz Sempron
1GB DDR400
GeForce 6800Ultra