On 4/5/2014 4:28 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2014-04-05, Eddie O'Connor <eoconno...@gmail.com> 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
>
>
>
EGO II, If it turns out to be a bad harddrive, it could still be
under warranty with WD.
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@centos.org
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
