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
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:41:05 -0400 "Eddie O'Connor" eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Drive sounds dead. You could try and pull it out of the enclosure to rule that out but sound's like you're making a trip to Fry's.
On 2014-04-05, Eddie O'Connor eoconnor25@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
On 4/5/2014 4:28 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2014-04-05, Eddie O'Connor eoconnor25@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.
Thanks Keith...going to go this route first....see what results I get.....
EGO II
On 04/05/2014 07:46 PM, Edward M wrote:
On 4/5/2014 4:28 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2014-04-05, Eddie O'Connor eoconnor25@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 beunder warranty with WD. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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
Thanks all.....will try some of these solutions when I get back home..... 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
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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.
Morning Eddie,
Saturday, April 5, 2014, 8:41:05 PM, you wrote:
...it looks like its about to do something...and then the loud click and nothing happens.
just wondering. Are you aware that you may need to mount the freshly formatted drive manually?
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Yeah Michael, I've tried to use the /mount/dev/sd* and it appears to work....because I don't get any error messages...but I still can't "browse" to the drive in the Nautilus file manager....so something's still not right.....
EGO II
On 04/07/2014 02:07 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
Morning Eddie,
Saturday, April 5, 2014, 8:41:05 PM, you wrote:
...it looks like its about to do something...and then the loud click and nothing happens.
just wondering. Are you aware that you may need to mount the freshly formatted drive manually?
best regards
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Hi Eddie,
Monday, April 7, 2014, 10:43:16 AM, you wrote:
Yeah Michael, I've tried to use the /mount/dev/sd* and it appears to work....because I don't get any error messages...but I still can't "browse" to the drive in the Nautilus file manager....so something's still not right.....
you may try mount with no parameters to get a confirmation that the mount was successful.
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