How to unbrick a totally dead WD My Cloud

Hi all, a simple post to thank this community for helping me out on bringing back to life my wdmycloud 3tb.

preface:

I got it bricked while trying to install minidlna on v3 firmware and the system just stop working.

solution (maintaining the data !):

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/Here-is-WD-My-Cloud-2TB-virgin-disk-image/td-p/637769/highlight/false/page/4

what I’ve been doing is to plug the hard drive to the sata port of a dekstop computer (seems possible to do it though the usb3 though… so no risk to break the case…need to be confirmed)

donwload the data contained in the dropbox folder :

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B_6OlQ_H0PxVSWl6ZURLMGJKT1U&export=download

and follow the instruction as it were a new hard drive, I simply didn’t format by data partition.

once all the dd were done, I re plugged the hard drive in and restarted it, and BOOM, blue light

hope it helps someone else.

L.