On 4/5/2014 4:28 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-04-05, Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25 at 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.