Possible HDD damage?

[railways]

Hi,

I am a bit paranoid at the moment as to weather my HDD is damaged or not. Earlier today, i got frustrated with a game and hit the desk, which has the computer on, with both my fists repeatedly for a few seconds. Although the case is placed about 40 - 45 cm away from where i hit the desk, the case itself did shake quite a bit.

The computer still acted in a normal manner (unlike me!) after what had happend. I shut down the computer and hit the desk in the same way and felt how much shock was being put upon the HDD cage and it was not alot.

Though, this is where im worried. When i shut it down, winodws 7 installed an update and now i can't log into, or sign up to certain services such as facebook. Could this be because of HDD problems?

The HDD is a samsung spinpoint F3 1tb drive and can apparently take up to 70 g's when operating and 300 g's when not working.

Could anyone put my mind at rest with this one?

thanks in advance

railways

 

[mnewsham]

I doubt you caused your HDD's and real harm, unless they werent properly installed there was probably no damage down the the hard drives. no idea about the windows problems.

 

[railways]

Hi

thanks for the quick reply.

They are mounted securley with 4 screws (two on each side) the case is a coolermaster 430 elite if that helps

i am 99% that they are absolutley fine, just paranoid about that other 1%

im guessing that a few hard bangs on the desk would cause no where near the required force to damage an HDD while in use?

Thanks

Railways

 

[mnewsham]

I carry my laptop up and down a flight of stairs while gaming.... something tells me a few fists against a desk wouldnt do much of anything. especially since they are mounted properly.

 

[mfenn]

The main way that shock could cause an HDD failure is by crashing the heads against the platter. If you'd done that, you'd know it.

 

[fffblackmage]

It's highly unlikely that you damaged it.

 

[stargazr]

Did you recently install the new service pack 1? I've been noticing a few threads about issues some users are having.

 

[Loosley]

The hard drives are probably fine. To put your mind at ease, you could try running a full Error Scan through HDTune (free trial).

Also SpinRite (not free) can do an extensive test on your hard drive, where it reads, writes, reads, writes every sector at a low level to make sure that nothing was damaged.

 

[dpodblood]

I highly doubt that your HDD would be damaged from your fit, and even if it *somehow* was it wouldn't cause the problems you're describing. You weren't playing Call of Duty by chance were you? 😛