Thanks Mark!......will be giving this a try along with all the other solutions.....I mean SOMETHING'S got to give!.... EGO II On 04/05/2014 08:00 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 04/05/14 14:41, Eddie O'Connor 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. I can SEE it in >> the Disk Utility in CentOS,...I even tried to format it from there as well >> and the symptoms are still the same. The lights come on...it looks like its >> about to do something...and then the loud click and nothing happens. Can >> anyone volunteer some advice as to where I would look for troubleshooting >> this issue? I really am not interested in what's on it. I just want to >> re-format it and (possibly) use it for storage. I have tried using various >> toosl to try and wipe this drive but nothing seems to work...(SystemRescue >> CD....D.B.A.N.......PartImage....Hiram's BootCD....) Any help or advice >> would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks In Advance >> >> >> EGO II > I hear that this works pretty well on any drive that is not physically dead. > > https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos