can moving a hard disk when its writing physically damage the disk?

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edliu512

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I have been using my 160G maxtor drive in an external enclosure, I moved my drive while it was doing a write operation, and then it somehow broke the write operation and the drive has errors on it when i tried to do defrag or scan disk. However after I reformat the drive everything works fine again. I was wondering if moving the hard disk while it was writing physically damaged the drive or was it completely fixed with reformating?
 
did you run the low-level scan utility that your manufacturer provided? That can determine if there currently is damage. If that comes back ok, there is a good chance that your drive will be ok, at least for a while.
 
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