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My cloud 8TB Disk Failed trying to recover with new Drive

hey everyone ,

hope this is the right place to write my problem .

i have my cloud 8TB (i think its gen2) , i found a message that i need to replace the disk .
my warranty ended , i open a case on WD support but they don’t know what kind of drive i have inside.
(well they want me to buy a new cloud.?) . i went to the store and i bought a new 8TB drive ,
its WD Red Plus Nas Hard Drive p/n : WD80EFBX

my old drive is still working and i wanted to copy everything from the old drive to the new drive.
i was trying to do it with Acronis but it didnt work. then i did Disk to Disk with Ghost
the OS moved to the new drive with the old drive details . it took about 24h to end the copy
but the drive is empty . i think the new drive get the old drive ID . i hope i didnt kill the new drive.

well how do i fix it ?
and how do i make the new drive to work with my cloud.

best regards .

@sushing

Where did you see a message that said to replace the drive? What kind of problems were you having?

Below are dashboard images of my 2nd generation WDMYCLOUD and it shows my device as Healthy.

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@sushing Did you run a disk test?

My Cloud OS 5 Online User Manual (wdc.com)

yeah , i did all the checks already .
so any idea how to make the new drive working ?

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