[CentOS] HDD Problem....

[EGO.II-1]

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
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