John, regardless if the PB was on or not, hard drives in general don't like being dropped. Had the PB been powered and dropped, you probably would have damaged the head/s and plate/s (it can survive gentle acceleration of <<1 g, but a drop shock is hard acceleration >>1 g). As it wasn't powered, only the bearing/s or other mounting hardware may have seen the damage. It's hard to tell what was damaged until you take it apart and measure. >From your description, I would guess that the bearings are starting to seize, >which mean that there is already damage of some sorts, and running it for any >length of time will make things go worse.
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