[GUIDE] Debrick MyBookLive v2.0

After i try to unbrick my device with Guide 1.0 6 hours…

I see that Guide 2, and it’s works and fully unbricked, but i have one problem i get red light, after boot, and stay red, but i can use the device without problems…

"

Drive SMART failure

The drive self-check failed. Please contact customer service."

Thank you very much !! 

Used the Guide yesterday and it was ez as pie, thanks for the great guide!

Just got my backup back on the MybookLive after 8 hours kopying it back from backup disk to MBL.

Was a fun experience tho, so perhaps ill tinker more with it (Linux) later on.

Hi,

I have a MBL 3TB enclosure, but I can´t see it in my network. With a drive installed, the LED is glowing yellow (I´m not sure, but I guess green and red are glowing simultaneously). Without a drive it glows red.

My router shows all the hardware (MAC-adresses) he finds, but not the one of the MBL.

Is it possible, that the cause why I can´t find it, is because there is no drive with a proper image? Or should I see at least the enclosure and an error message?

Would it be possible that it runs again, when I install a 2TB drive and did I have to use the image for the 2TB or for the 3TB version?

Thanks in advance

€: I tryed to get the 3TB-Version working with a 1TB Samsung HD103UJ (and the 1TB-Image) and after a couple of attempts (typed “sda1” instead of “sda” etc…) it is running!!!

SMART comes up with some things like that the file-server is corrupt, but i can write files and the WBL is visible in the network

thank you for your effort to teach people (who don´t know anything about linux, networks and this whole stuff) some stuff like that

€2: today i installed a 4TB WD Red and expanded the Partition from 3TB to the full capacity and it works too.

right now i´m having a problem to wake up the MBL from sleep-mode, but besides this, it runs fine.

Thanks for taking your time to write this nice guide!

I tried to debrick my MLB 3 TB, but used the 1 TB image (did not see the newer version).

During disk check I got a lot of bad blocks and the whole process lasted over 2 hours with very low disk performance. I believe the HDD is simply bad. Any idea to do anything but to trash it?

Thanks!

//CD

Thank you very much for this tutorial. It saved my 2T MyBookLive.

I used USB to SATA cable and Virtual Box on win7. No need to do any changes to my computer and 100% safe.

My HDD was really messed up with because I tried other tutorials and I ended up formatting the HDD with NTFS but none worked. This tutorial worked great even with my messed up HDD.

One more thing, I had some problems because I types sda1 instead of sda. So watch out, it is sda.

ths,it works for me ,my mbl3t is back

Hello! My hard drive in book is dead =( I buy for change new disk - WDC WD20EURX-63T0FY0, but it’s don’t work. When i connect unbricked drive to matherboad and turn on power - i see just blue led and lan connect/disconnect every 10 seconds. How i can fix if? May be problem in this “Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical”

My boot log:

U-Boot 2009.08 (Sep 02 2010 - 21:48:57), Build: 0.2.3

CPU: Rev. D at 800 MHz (PLB=200, OPB=100, EBC=100 MHz)
Security support
Bootstrap Option E - Boot ROM Location NOR/SRAM (8 bits)
32 kB I-Cache 32 kB D-Cache
Board: Apollo-3G - APM82181 Board, 2*SATA, 1*USB
I2C: ready
DRAM: Auto calibration 256 MB
FLASH: 512 kB
DTT: 1 FAILED INIT
Net: PHY EC1 Register: 0x2c8c
ppc_4xx_eth0

Type run flash_nfs to mount root filesystem over NFS

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 1 1
Do initialization on SATA1 …
Waiting for device…
sata_dwc: Device found
sata_dwc: Waiting for device…
Loading file “/testcfg/mfg_test_cfg” from sata device 1:1 (gpt1)
set po.
failed to READ SECTORS (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
sata_dwc : Hard disk read error.
Machine Check Exception.
Caused by (from msr): regs 0fe76480 Data Write PLB Error
NIP: 0FFA7B50 XER: 00000000 LR: 0FFA7B2C REGS: 0fe76480 TRAP: 0200 DEAR: 00000000
MSR: 00029000 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/E76F44 00000058 FFFFFF70 00000001 00000001 5C8A1330
GPR08: 0FF7BF58 E20D1820 05F5E101 E20D1818 24FF4F28 20002303 0FFC0400 0FFB4730
GPR16: 0FF83120 0FFB470C 0FE76DA4 0FE76CA4 0FFC00A8 0FE76590 00000001 0FE76820
GPR24: 00000FC0 0000000F 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 0FFC2040 0FFBF288
Call backtrace:
0FFA7B2C 0FFA8E6C 0FFA9050 0FFA5C4C 0FFA5248 0FF8498C 0FF9AF00
0FF9B034 0FF94864 0FF95608 0FF7BAB4 0FF79710
machine check

Please, not working link… Help.

Guide 1 (1TB and 2TB MBL)

 

  1. Download the virgin disk image (02.11.09-053) (291MB) from

https://mega.co.nz/#!AAFFnQxA!PfId_3R6RRhS_EJ01X4lbAhr8QQi0R4oainKc8gYpRE

I’m using a 8TB MyBookLive Duo. It’s bricked.

How to debrick my 8TB MyBookLive Duo?

Is it the same as this 3TB MyBookLive Duo?

Cheers

Pei

Great guide, used it some time ago to debrick my 2TB MyBookLive and yesterday i used it to install a 4TB WD green drive in it making it a 4TB MyBookLive. Works like a charm.

do you think I can use also a smaller disk, e.g. less than 1TB?

I replaced the MBL with a 4-disk NAS when the drive fault, and I have some working  SATA disks, all smaller than 1TB…

Anyone did this test?

Thanks

some people have…

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/Help-request-how-to-install-config-Mybook-Live-software-on-a-new/m-p/670577/highlight/true#M28003

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Don’t know if anyone monitors this thread anymore but, I took my 3TB Mybook live unit off the shelf after find this thread. After much reading and time i managed to get the drive to a different state than it was. However it is now stuck in the solid green light state, there is network activity, but i can not access the dashboard. Logging into my router I do not find the devices MAC address in the client list. Any suggestions on what to try next would be greatly appreciated.

I wanted to say thank you for this tutorial and the discussion. I successfully saved my WD mybook live 3tb after a botched firmware upgrade.

THANKS!

Hi,

nfodiz   thanks for your help.

I used R-Linux with USB-SATA docking station for recovery of my fiels. Then replaced disk with new  one (old was 2T new is 3T) and used your image. It works.

Thanks again.

Hi!!!

This is the situation of my HDD.

It’s right?

I think no :(((

I follwed the guide but now i have problem to do the right partition. 

I hope someone can help me, please 

Thanks

Giuseppe 

hi everyone, i have a MBL 1TB drive and enclosure that ive filled to the brim. what i would like to do is replace the 1TB green drive in my enclosure with this 3TB red drive i took from a mybook for mac. after working out all the bugs with my cd burner and my sata cables etc, ive finally gotten completely through the Guide 2.0 for the 3TB drive and gotten the 4420 records in/out msg but my drive never shows up on the network and never gets an ip from the router… i THINK im zeroing in on the problem, i think i need to set up my partitions correctly before starting the guide… is there a page in the guide that talks about that, or does anyone have any advice?

thanks!

also i was thinking, it might be easier for me to image my existing drive to the new one, then resize it? anyone seen a good guide for that?

Hi Nfodiz,

I  have 3TB version of WDBL, not sure either it is version 1 or 2 but box is like this ( http://images.anandtech.com/doci/4952/mybook_box_575px.JPG))

Issue I had: typical no dashboard, SSH , but I had access to sever and DLNA.

First I debricked without data loss , whole process completed without any error but MBL light remained yellow.

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/GUIDE-How-to-unbrick-a-totally-dead-MBL/td-p/435724

then I debriced using Data wipe option from same thread , which raised error several errors 

./debrick.sh rootfs.img /dev/sda destroy

warnings like block size and file

could not complete the process due to errors , but rsulted all partiations were deleted.

then I Version 2 solution for 3TB. first it raised error while mounting the usb (no clean system however i used clean 350 hdd formatted on ntfs)

following command , raised dd error 7+1 copied , (few mbs), plugged into the nas but light is stil static yellow.

I am newbiew to Linux stuff so not have much info , would be greatfull if you guide to make MBL re-alive. Thanks

dd if=/mnt/usb/mybook3tb.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M

Further more, I tried 1tb img as well, both 1tb and 3tb img deployed successfully (as per main thread same in/out bytes).
After depoyement particians wiped to untouFurther more, I tried 1tb img as well, both 1tb and 3tb img deployed successfully (as per main thread same in/out bytes).
After depoyement particians wiped to unformatted. On MBL pcb, constant yellow light and router also does not show any used ip for mac address. So i cant acess Dashboard too.

Plz plz help me, getting Frustrated and could not sleep well because of this. ched. On MBL pcb, constant yellow light and router also does not show any used ip for mac address. So i cant acess Dashboard too.

Plz plz help me, getting Frustrated and could not sleep well because of this.

Note: i have tried different pcs, lan cables and routers but result is same.