I pretty much leave my MBL to its own devices and use it to store files for access from all our gadgets. It occassionally fell off the network and was tad busy disk-wise but generally behaved itself. Until something happened a few days ago. Couldn’t get into it and it showed up as a mysterious de…

Before you do anything, if possible, backup your data If under Warranty, try to get a replacement. Otherwise, look for Nfodiz guides for Unbrink, there are two versions. Good luck!

Thanks both. I really don’t want to take it apart and the de-bricking guides don’t work as my /etc/system.conf is corrupt so the .sh scripts can’t run it and hence fail. I’ve checked around and everything else seems fine. I was hoping just restoring a healthy /etc/system.conf file may help? If s…

If you do not want to take it apart, fair enough. ??? about the second part… the de-bricking will NOT make use of your conf file, or any file for that matter. It will restore the original files and configs. You might even be able to get it from those files, as some are tar and img.

What I was referring to was that updateFirmwareFromFile.sh, amongst others, performs a “. /etc/system.conf” or reference that file. I am looking at getting it from rootfs.img - is this popsicle if I write that image to a SD card or similar? Alternatively, I was hoping the system.conf was fairly …

Eureka! I’ve revived it after much experimenting & a bit of reading… In case it’s useful to others, here’s what I did: 1. Enabled SSH 2. Realised /etc/system.conf was bad after running the usual recovery/restore scripts 3. As I could mount data volume manually and everything else looked soun…

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ERmorel December 8, 2014, 3:27pm 2

Hello there,

Sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues with your unit.

See if the following link helps

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/GUIDE-Debrick-MyBookLive-v2-0/m-p/567582#M22126

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