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 -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****