Jenga PC

[Mad The Swine]

EEP... I acidentally knocked my computer over today :(! and when I looked at the monitor it had all frozen, i quickly yanked the plug and rebooted, to my horror there was a nasty strong vibrating from the case, so i investigated and found out it was my CD drive, that's ok, i was getting a new CDRWDVD drive anyway, but my real concern is my HDD, although it appears ok (i.e. everything starts up and works fine) i'm worried about damage.

i'm not sure if the disk was being accesed when it hit the floor.

any suggestions as to how to check for damage?

Thanks

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Thunderbird 1.4, 512MB, GF2 400MX, ****e case with a custom paint job :p

[Mad The Swine]

BTW, it's a 40GB HDD @ 7200rpm

(just incase anyone wants to know)

[DarkAngel]

If it's working ok, there shouldn't be too much of a problem, try running scandisk and make a backup of everything just in case! ;)

[Geekster]

I can see the CDROM failing like that, but hard disks are fairly sturdy beasts. if my memory serves me right, the only way to invalidate the waranty on my Maxtor drive (by shock, anyhoo) is to put it through a shock in excess of 250Gs, which is basically impossible, so if it seems to fail later, send it back to the manufacturer and let them have a look, most disks have atleast a 5 year waranty :)

[Mad The Swine]

Thanks Guys

[Kynoch]

The best way to check if the heads in your hdd have done any damage to the surface o your disks when your computer fell, is to run norton utilities Disk Doctor, and let it do a surface scan!