On 2014-04-05, Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok so I have a 500GB WD "Blue Scorpion" HDD that I'm trying to access via
> USB, when I boot up my CentOS laptop the lights on the external USB casing
> light up...and I can hear the drive making noise, but after a few minutes I
> hear an abrupt "click" and the drive doesn't do anything.
Is it actually the drive making the click sound? If so, it sounds like
a bad drive. You can throw the drive at the WD drive tester and see
what it reports--it won't necessarily find every physical problem, but
it usually finds the most egregious ones. (Unfortunately the WD tester
is a DOS program, so you can't run it under CentOS. You can download
the Ultimate Boot CD, which has a large collection of these programs,
including drive testers for Seagate, Hitachi, and other drive vendors.)
--keith
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