Thank your very much for the fast response @cpt_paranoia
I’ll give it a try as soon as I’ve my Gen2 MyCloud.
I’ve another issue and I couldn’t find a solution yet, so I Hope you can help me…
here we go:
I installed the clean Debian with OMV. Everything was fine and I played a little bit with that.
After that, I decided to unbrick my 3TB MyCloud and that went well too.
All my data and files were safe as well but I could only see the full storage was 2TB (300GB free) and not 3TB (1.3TB free).
I reset the firmware back to factory state and now the dash shows me the full 3TB (with 2.97 TB free) storage. I think, I’ve unfortunately deleted all files there
The Q:
Is there a chance/way to recover my date/files & backups (1.7TB)?
There is always a way to recover your files unless you write over them while talking about a HDD. Plenty of tools can be used. You should try using Linux for this task but need to attach your HDD to your computer and either have Linux installed or run a Live CD.
EDIT: Recuva has support for ext4 file system partitions. To use it under Windows you must first install ext2fsd and mount the partition you want. Afterwards you can use the fast and efficient Recuva made by the creators of Ccleaner. It works fast and with a very intuitive UI.
Thank your for great efforts but i have issue when i make (mkpart primary ) command ask start? and i write 9428992s and ask me for end? my hard is 4TB i don’t know what is the parameter should be entered , finally when i complete with out enter this value (end?) my cloud flashing light red
I can not do that.
Please, help me!
Loads the image. Instead of 5.2 Gb and waiting a few minutes
ends after 4 seconds with 15 MB loaded.
As I check in Gparted it looks normal but after starting the device heats up very much and nothing happens.
Edit…
I’ve already dealt with the problem, there are errors on the disk sda1.
I did the same thing on my Seagate 2Tb and everything went quickly and painlessly.
Now I have a blue light on my cloud but I can not update the firmware in any way! WDMyCloud v03.00.03-413: Core F / W does not want to jump with an automatic or manual update from the file.
How to solve it?
Hi friend, am having a problem with my WD My clud, it seems that the hard drive is like moving a lot inside of the slot of my WD My Cloud, and I want to use my hard drive as a solid state drive, due to this two factors explained, I want to replace my hard hard drive with a Solid State Drive, and I need to know the model of the SSD that best fits with my WD My Cloud, so I can remove it whenever I want and to take it with me.
Hi folks,
I’m trying to unbrick my mycloud gen2 with this tutorial foxys_guide and everything running as expected till the very last step.
When I try to upload the firmware the upload page is hanging at 0% , the red LED stops blinking, and its permanently on. Any idea?
Many thanx!
I got a Mycloud board off ebay. WDBCTL0020HWT.
Got a 3 TB wd drive and piut the 3TB image on it.
Magic happened and I got a Blue light.
Trouble is there is on 1.5GB of free space on it . Anyone, can you publish the partition table for yout 3TB mycloud?
min had a 1 mb partition
a 128 mb partition
and a 2.73 TB partition (unformatted)
But the mycloud ap says only 1.5gb free space.
If using Windows 10 the following discussion may be helpful if one has removed the hard drive from the My Cloud enclosure and it attempting to read it’s contents.
same issue here. seem to be stuck as any ethond I try to use fail (recovery, USB or load the files to the partition of my 8TB Red directly all fail to get my cloud to stay on blue.)
I have a feeling that its because when I use parted on my linux box and force the partitions when I mkpart primary xxxxx xxxxxx , using “I” to ignore the error:
The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance
my partitions are not the correct size or they don’t start with the correct offset.
Hi Ouglee, This worked perfect for me! I’ve tried almost all of them and this one worked best for me. I suspect it was the SystemRescue CD that was cooperative. Thanks!
Hi Ouglee and all. Just wanted to add that I had a single drive MyCloud in which the drive was failing. So I followed you’re instructions and was able to install a new 10TB (I’m a go big or go home kinda guy) drive and it’s working fine. I was able to generate an image file from my own cloud and I installed that rather than one from the link(s) posted.
I’m a complete Linux newbe, but was able to follow your instructions just fine. I did have two differences from your instructions. First I did not get the error (step 14) and it did ask for an ending block number. I entered the 3TB number 5860533134s supplied by zelig (thanks zelig) so there was a lot of unallocated space. Like some of the others, I just went into gparted and expanded EXT4 to use the remaining space. Boot up mycloud and
it was showing 0 for available space and diagnostics showed drive not mounted. So I did a quick restore and it then show 9.8TB
In this screen shot it shows 9.6TB because I had already loaded a bunch of files.
If anyone is interested, here’s what it looked like once I finished expanding the EXT4 partition (sorry for the picture quality, it’s a phone picture of my monitor):
I am glad you posted this, Recovering from a brick is rather simple so even if your a novice linux person dont frey away from a brick, You might be glad you did. I plan on writing script that will pull them with wget of and fully automate this since WD is just to busy these days to have one of there many coders (hey Craig!) to devote 1 week of copying D-Link src code and make it there own. Just saying…Also I have a mirror of Fox’s Code on my site if for whatever reason links are down. www.hackerz.me
brannon@brannon-EL1352G:~$ uname -arn
Linux brannon-EL1352G 4.18.0-13-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 09:04:24 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
