6-7-2013 ATTENTION ALL USER’S THAT USED THE PREVIOUS GUIDE 1 DISK IMAGE
SEE GUIDE 3 ON HOW TO FIX YOUR SWAP PARTITION
6-7-2013 GUIDE 1 HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH A GOOD IMAGE
7-16-2013 Disassembly video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLJi66vxnY (Thanks saurabhstar)
This guide is for those having issues getting the script in my first guide to properly debrick their MBL
This guide WILL DELETE all of your data so refer to the original guide for instructions on backing up data from your drive prior to using this guide and also on how to remove the hard drive from the enclosure
http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Live/GUIDE-How-to-unbrick-a-totally-dead-MBL/td-p/435724
DISCLAIMER
Be aware that this will void your warranty and is only to be used as a last resort when you have no dashboard or SSH
I am not responsible for any loss of data as a result of you following this guide
PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK
I have images for a 1TB MBL and a 3TB MBL
Guide 1 is for a 1TB or 2TB MBL (Updated with new image with working SWAP)
Guide 2 is for a 3TB MBL
Guide 3 is for users who used the old Guide 1 disk image so you can fix your SWAP
Guide 1 (1TB and 2TB MBL)
- Download the virgin disk image (02.11.09-053) (291MB) from
https://mega.co.nz/#!AAFFnQxA!PfId_3R6RRhS_EJ01X4lbAhr8QQi0R4oainKc8gYpRE
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Extract with 7-zip and you should have a file called mybook.img
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -
Format an 8GB+ thumbdrive or external usb hard drive to NTFS and copy mybook.img to it
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Download SystemRescueCd and burn it to a CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download -
Shut down your computer and remove the cable from your computers hard drive so we don’t erase it by mistake
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Hook up your MyBookLive to a SATA port on your motherboard or buy an eSATA to SATA cable or dock and hook up the drive that way. You can try a USB to SATA cable but success rates vary
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Turn on your computer and tell it to boot from the CD drive
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When the system rescue cd menu comes up, select to “directly start the graphical environment”
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Open gparted and check to see where your MyBookLive shows under. In my case it shows up under /dev/sda
The drive should contain several EXT3 partitions and a rather large EXT4 partition
If your drive shows up under sdb, sdc, sdd etc. just substitute the proper name for the drive when getting to
dd if=/mnt/usb/mybook.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M (DONT ENTER THIS COMMAND YET)
Now in gparted check to see where your thumbdrive shows up. In my case it shows up under /dev/sdb1
If it shows up under sdc1, sdd1, sde1, etc. just substitute the proper name for the drive when getting to
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb (DONT ENTER THIS COMMAND YET)
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In terminal type the commands below (Make sure you change sdb1 (For the thumbdrive or usb hard drive) and sda (for the MBL hard drive) to whatever they show up as in GPARTED)
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
dd if=/mnt/usb/mybook.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M -
Look for any errors in the terminal window (output should look similar to below)
4420+0 records in
4420+0 records out -
Logout of the SystemRescue CD and shut down the computer
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Hook up the pcb to the MyBookLive hard drive and screw it down with 2 screws for now and then hook up the ethernet and power cord and try booting the drive again without putting it back in the case
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Now from the dashboard do a Quick Factory restore to format the data partition
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When the quick factory restore is complete power down the MyBookLive
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If you have a 1TB MBL skip to 18
If you have a 2TB MBL continue on to 16a
16a) If you have a 2TB MBL you now need to hook the drive back up to your computer again
16b) Again boot up the system rescue cd and select to “directly start the graphical environment”
16c) Open gparted and find your MBL and extend the data partition and click the apply button up top to apply the changes (See pictures below)
Right click the partition that is 927.21 GiB and select Resize/Move
Drag the slider from the right side of the blue box all the way over to the right
Free space following should state 0
Now click the Resize/Move button
Click the green checkmark the apply the changes
Yes you are sure you want to apply changes so click Apply
Resizing partition
Partition resize is complete so click the Close button
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Log out of the system rescue cd and shut down your computer
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Put the drive back together as you are done!
Guide 2 (3TB MBL)
- Download the virgin disk image (02.41.05-034) (203MB) from
https://mega.co.nz/#!FZkASQ6T!P3DMWzaOn62jSrG4SECtIDeJeLYEdmz6w6kR9it8U68
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Extract with 7-zip and you should have a file called mybook3tb.img
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -
Format an 8GB+ thumbdrive or external usb hard drive to NTFS and copy mybook3tb.img to it
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Download SystemRescueCd and burn it to a CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download -
Shut down your computer and remove the cable from your computers hard drive so we don’t erase it by mistake
-
Hook up your MyBookLive to a SATA port on your motherboard or buy an eSATA to SATA cable or dock and hook up the drive that way. You can try a USB to SATA cable but success rates vary
-
Turn on your computer and tell it to boot from the CD drive
-
When the system rescue cd menu comes up, select to “directly start the graphical environment”
-
Open gparted and check to see where your MyBookLive shows under. In my case it shows up under /dev/sda
The drive should contain several EXT3 partitions and a rather large EXT4 partition
If your drive shows up under sdb, sdc, sdd etc. just substitute the proper name for the drive when getting to
dd if=/mnt/usb/mybook3tb.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M (DON’T ENTER THIS COMMAND YET)
Now in gparted check to see where your thumbdrive shows up. In my case it shows up under /dev/sdb1
If it shows up under sdc1, sdd1, sde1, etc. just substitute the proper name for the drive when getting to
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb (DONT ENTER THIS COMMAND YET)
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In terminal type the commands below (Make sure you change sdb1 (For the thumbdrive or usb hard drive) and sda (for the MBL hard drive) to whatever they show up as in GPARTED)
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
dd if=/mnt/usb/mybook3tb.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M -
Look for any errors in the terminal window (output should look similar to below)
4420+0 records in
4420+0 records out -
Logout of the SystemRescue CD and shut down the computer
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Hook up the pcb to the MyBookLive hard drive and screw it down with 2 screws for now and then hook up the ethernet and power cord and try booting the drive again without putting it back in the case
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Now from the dashboard do a Quick Factory restore to format the data partition
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When the quick factory restore is complete power down the MyBookLive
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Put the drive back together as you are done!
Guide 3 (SWAP FIX) Only needed for people who used the old 1TB MBL image
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Enable SSH from the dashboard by logging in and changing the end of the url to /UI/ssh
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SSH in with either PuTTY (Windows) or Terminal (MAC) and create a swap partition and reboot
The login is
username: root
password: welc0me
Enter the commands
mkswap /dev/sda3
reboot
The output should look similar to this
MyBookLive:~# mkswap /dev/sda3Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 500672 KiBLABEL=, UUID=c3bc3a15-4b8d-407b-b897-956cc956e138MyBookLive:~# rebootBroadcast message from root@MyBookLive (pts/0) (Sun Mar 10 14:09:02 2013):The system is going down for reboot NOW!MyBookLive:~#
3) Once the drive reboots you will have a working SWAP partition
TROUBLESHOOTING
If you get a blinking blue light when trying to boot the MyBookLive you have a bad power supply (Thanks lilmick89)
When you go to resize the data partition on a 2TB MyBookLive and all you see is 2TB of unallocated space in GPARTED it is likely due to you using a USB to SATA cable (Thanks to nutello for the heads up on this)
You will have to manually resize the data partition by following this post