How impossible is the devastate to my external not easy drive?

Hi, yesterday I dropped my Packard Bell 250GB extrenal sturdy drive onto the floor from about 3 foot. It be plugged in to both the D and my laptop, but i'm not sure if it was spinning or not. At first it be making a sort of clicking noise as it be spinning, but now it seem to be spinning ok, and if I create very small partition e.g 1GB, it seems to be working fine. However, I am trying to format a separator of about 10GB and it is taking forever. It have been running for roughly speaking half an hour and is at 5%, but it is steadily moving. Do you reckon it is broken or is it worth waiting for the format to complete and seeing what it's like? Do you feel the speed it is currently formatting at will be the speed it would run at if I managed to format the drive?

Thanks.

How impossible is the devastate to my external not easy drive?

appropriate the drive out of the case.put it within your pc. you can use a program to check the drive to see if it dog-eared.a program called, thorny disk sentinel can tell you the temp,smart status, and other things give or take a few the drive to see if its ok or not.

external drives are slow to begin beside. if your using it as extra storage thats fine. play music.but if your playing games it will be alot slower than if it was surrounded by your pc.
Sounds approaching its broken.
I've actually repaired firm drives by dropping them (though not from 3 feet).

Sounds like the drive is working (at lowest possible for now). Since it's an external I'm assuming your using it as a backup device.

I'd suggest that you replace it soon, you don't want to have a gigs of facts backed up when it dies.