Eligible for Genius Bar advice?

Hey all,
I was all ready to take my laptop to my local Genius Bar and ask for advice then thought it might be a bit cheeky - do you think this is something they can help me with? It's a bit out of the way so can't pop by to enquire.
I have a Macbook Pro. I used to use a Seagate external Hard Drive with no problems, however I dropped the HD by accident. It worked ok the first time I plugged it into my laptop, I created a new folder and everything, however after that it would shut down my laptop everytime I connected it. I tried it on another mac laptop and I got a message saying the computer couldnt recognise the drive. I also got this msg when I connect to my laptop again via a USB hub instead.
It's obviously the Drive not my apple laptop that's not working but is this still something Genius Bar can help me with? I've never tried Disk repair etc and would welcome their assistance to hopefully fix it without losing the HD's contents!
Many thanks!

The genius bar folks are very knowledgeable and helpful, but it sounds like a problem they will not be able to treat except to say get a new external drive.
If the drive causes the MacBook Pro to shutdown there isn't much you can do in the way of working on it with Disk Utility.  You can go ahead and take the MBP and drive in and see if they are able to help you with the drive, it never hurts to ask.

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