So I decided to pick up a WD MyBook Live (2TB) because it was god awful cheap…
I didn’t really buy it for the mybook part more so the drive part… so i took the 2tb drive out and used that where i needed it… now i’ve got a 500gb drive that i just wanna play around with in the mybook live… is there a way to create the partitions manually if so what sizes and types etc…
So far I’ve:
downloaded the recovery cd
followed two steps one using a script and one manual
neither of them account for a blank drive and are instead geared at unbricking… i figured unbricking is the same as a new drive sans partitions from the instructions, apparently not so…
Anyone have a writeup or pointers in how to either 1. partition the drive correctly or 2. set up a new drive in the unit… I get that maybe i need to have a 2tb drive in there in which case i won’t continue trying…
I tried that - but when i ran the last command i got an error.
I’ll need to try again in a bit and see what error I get. When i boot the mybook live up i get a solid green light which i assume means it isn’t working right…