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…
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Drive SMART failure
The drive self-check failed. Please contact customer service."
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?
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.
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”
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.
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 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.
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?
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.