Western Digital Scorpio Black 320 GB hard drive dying ... so I'm running Lucid Puppy in the interim

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Jul 23, 2010 4:57 PM EDT
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The Western Digital 320 GB Scorpio Black hard drive I bought from NewEgg.com more than a month ago (and which I only recently got around to breaking out of the box and installing) is dying. This is the drive from which I've been running Fedora 13. Those annoying clicks when the drive first boots (and occasionally thereafter) are not normal. The smartctl utility hasn't provided much help, nor has the diagnostic image that WD offers on their Web site (which runs with Dr. DOS — who remembers Dr. DOS??)

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