Hello everyone, first time posting. I’ve had a WD My Cloud 4 TB HDD for quite some time now, past the warranty period. Yesterday my girlfriend (bless her…) dropped it… Ever since then whenever I plug the power cord I get a solid red light. I’ve tried the 4 second and 40 second reset to no avail. T…

How is it connected to your PC?

If one uses the forum search feature, magnifying glass icon upper right, they’ll see this question has been asked from time to time. The My Cloud hard drive is formatted for Linux. As such unless one installs special drivers to Windows, a Windows PC will not recognize the contents of the hard drive…

I have it connected directly to the motherboard, as if having 2 HDD on my computer. Thank you Bennor. I did look it up but I am mainly wondering if there is something else I can do. I’m going to try to read it in a Linux environment, see if it comes up. I don’t care about data recovery, it was used…

I was trying to find the firmware to install on the HDD earlier and couldn’t find anything. Is there anything out there? If I get this working on Linux, can I reformat the OS? Can I grab any HDD, put it in the shell, and install the firmware?

I fear that dropping it has caused physical damage. You may be able to recover data. DO NOT FORMAT IT YET. See this thread: [image] My Cloud dead, how to see content on Windows 10? My Cloud Hi! I don’t really know if this is the place to post this, but I would really rea…

Thank you cpt, I did not see that post. I read it, it’s all good information, but not exactly what I am looking for. The data in the HDD is not important, I am trying to save this HDD. See if it’s broken for sure, if it’s possible to reformat it, etc.

Okay. Using an ext4 file system reader would at least allow you to see if the drive is working at all. Are you trying to rescue the MyCloud, or just the HDD from the MyCloud? If the latter, and you don’t care about losing the NAS function, just plug it into a spare SATA slot in a PC, and format it …

[image] Maty: See if it’s broken for sure, if it’s possible to reformat it, etc. As indicated above use Linux to access the hard drive. If Linux cannot mount the hard drive to either view its contents, scan/repair the drive, or to format it, then changes are very good the drive is damaged. I…

Try reading it with testdisk. [image] Partition Recovery and File Undelete TestDisk is a free and open source data recovery software tool designed to recover lost partition and unerase deleted files. Testdisk is free, and available for both windows and linux …

Reformat 4 TB HDD?

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cpt_paranoia May 4, 2017, 6:04pm 6

I fear that dropping it has caused physical damage. You may be able to recover data. DO NOT FORMAT IT YET. See this thread:

Topic		Replies	Views
Failed 4tb mycloud (out of warranty) My Cloud OS 3	3	1464	May 23, 2017
Mounting pulled out HDD on linux after WD went red WD Red	4	3852	September 1, 2015
Wd My Cloud Gen1 unreadable -- how to access data? My Cloud OS 3	4	1317	January 20, 2019
MyCloud is dead and need to recover data My Cloud OS 3	17	57176	March 25, 2020
MyCloud 4TB, Solid red LED, unable to read with EXT4 My Cloud OS 3	2	440	January 2, 2020

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