[manofsteel300]

I own an iBook. Someone else was using my computer and had left it sleeping on the edge of a table plugged into a power source. At some point they had walked and pulled the power cord with their legs, dragging the iBook off the table and straight for the ground. I'd say the drop was somewhere around 3 feet. I was out of town and they told me that it wouldnt wake up from sleep or respond to the power key or anything. They took it to UCLA apple repairs and they had managed to shut it down and power it back up. At this point they decided that everything was working and sent it home. I disagree though. The computer is not working fine. It seems like the HD needle was over the HD when it fell and must have left some damage because there are certain applications which now refuse to launch and everyting functions realyl slowly.

I used the hardware diagnostic cd and everything appears fine. What do you guys think the problem is and how should I go about fixing it?

The computer is a 500 mhz g3 ibook out of warrenty.

[Detrius]

Tech Tool Pro is great for running surface scans, which is what you need to do to check your hard drive.

Hard drives do tend to be quite durable. Also, in laptops, they are mounted in rubber gromets to significantly reduce the shock of an impact. The chances of hard drive damage are slim to none. In general, the LCD will break well before the hard drive will crash.

[SupahCoolX]

Just to be safe, I'd back up all your important stuff ASAP.
Then run whichever disk repair apps you prefer (TechTool, Diskwarrior, etc). I'd probably erase it, do some in-depth scanning/testing of the drive, then reinstall everything.
Backing up is the key, though. If your drive was permanently borked because of the drop, you'd be screwed without a backup.

[BobVB]

Originally posted by Detrius:
Tech Tool Pro is great for running surface scans, which is what you need to do to check your hard drive.

Hard drives do tend to be quite durable. Also, in laptops, they are mounted in rubber gromets to significantly reduce the shock of an impact. The chances of hard drive damage are slim to none. In general, the LCD will break well before the hard drive will crash.

And when the computer is asleep the heads are parked and so *if* it really did fall when it was asleep the drive should have been as safe as it can be.

[RevEvs]

the same situation happened to me. although it was on. I lost about 2 -3 Gig of the Hard Drive... i partitioned it off and had it working barely for a day or, but then it started playing up again. Ended up having to replace the HD.

revs

[manofsteel300]

are you guys sure its the hard drive that's malfunctioning?