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 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos