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 at 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. -- Just to have it is enough.
On 04/05/2014 02:41 PM, Eddie O'Connor wrote:> Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.Try to get some SMART data out of it if you can: # yum install smartmontools # smartctl -a /dev/sdX -- Jorge
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 -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
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 III 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/ ****
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 --- Michael Schumacher PAMAS Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH Dieselstr.10, D-71277 Rutesheim Tel +49-7152-99630 Fax +49-7152-996333 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Gerhard Schreck Handelsregister B Stuttgart HRB 252024