If you can retrieve your data, do so now. Hard Drives were not made to be dropped. It will be toast before you know it.
Yesterday, a friend of mine dropped my external HDD. It still works but when I try to do scandisk on one of the partitions out of the three, it tells me that it can't perform such operation now and if I want to perform it when I restart next time. It never does so, even if I say yes and keep it connected.
Now my questions is, how do I make sure that my HDD is still in good condition as it was before? I don't find any change in the screeching sound that it makes. I would like to make sure that it is reliable and it won't ditch me in the middle of nowhere with all my data on it.

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