My Cloud is constantly on offline?

[Bennor]

One possible fix for a fast blinking blue front LED on a second gen single bay My Cloud was posted in another discussion:

Fix for inaccessible My Home gen 2 with blinking LED

My device became inaccessible recently. I did not do anything unusual, so I am guessing that an automatic software update failed. The LED was a rapid blinking blue. A “power off 40 second reset” did not change the behaviour. There are a few forum posts that discuss these symptoms and offer various solutions. Some links to required software are obsolete. I downloaded these: Putty usbrecovery.tar.gz One of the threads contained a link to this video. I followed these instructions up to 3:35. Pu…

Run a disk check via SSH or Telnet:
e2fsck /dev/sda3

Putty: https://www.putty.org/
usbrecovery.tar.gz: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen2/usbrecovery.tar.gz