Dropped my hard drives

[GSZX1337]

I have a similar Portable HD (it's also a WD 320GB) which I dropped a couple times. It worked fine and is still alive. Those plastic shells they have are sturdier than they look.

[CRTGAMER]

Well I did a verify disk in disk utility
and I got "The volume store appears to be OK" on 2 partitions
and in one partition it said
"incorrect number of file hard links"
and it needs to be repaired

so , am I ok or what?

**update**

OK, I did a disk repair, and everything says its ok now.
I looked at SMART, and it says "NOT SUPPORTED"

now what?

Everything okay. SMART not supported thru USB connection.

[Wobble The Hutt]

i fell out of a tow truck and flung a 20GB HDD (bare drive mind you) up in the air about 15 feet and it landed in the mud and it was fine. i wouldn't worry too much. however the best way to check to see if a drive is ok after the fact is if you can hook it upto a PC and run chkdsk x: /r /x

where x: is the drive letter

this will force chkdsk to dismount the drive asap (cant use the command with a boot drive) and do a full repair (which is a sector by sector check) make sure to do it from a command window and not the run command box (run cmd.exe and with vista and windows 7 you will have to run it with admin privileges) and afterwards you can see how many bad sectors there are. if the number is 0 then hurrah no harm done if there are a few get the data off and get it replaced via warranty support asap.

[D.D.D.]

Well I did a verify disk in disk utility
and I got "The volume store appears to be OK" on 2 partitions
and in one partition it said
"incorrect number of file hard links"
and it needs to be repaired

so , am I ok or what?

**update**

OK, I did a disk repair, and everything says its ok now.
I looked at SMART, and it says "NOT SUPPORTED"

now what?

Everything okay. SMART not supported thru USB connection.

WTF?? Thanks Apple~