MyBook live 1TB and a blank HD inside

[luigidangelo]

Hello everyone, this is my first post.

I’ve searched the forum for an answer, but i found no similar issues.

First of all I have to say that my situation is really out of every official support.

This is what happened:

I had to recover a PC with failing HD as soon as possible. So i went to nearest shop to buy an HD, they didn’t sell bare plain HDs, and i bought a WD MyBook Live. Then  I opened it to get the HD to replace the failing one.

I tried to open the MyBook case as carefully as possible to save both the case and the electronics for later use.

I had to format the 1TB HD taken from the MyBook, with no possibility to clone it somwhere else. I saw 4 or 5 Linux partitions: I guess the smaller ones for an operating system installed, and a large partition for data storage.

Now I’m trying to set back up the MyBook with another HD inside.

As expected, the MyBook stops with a yellow light trying to load the Operating System.

My question is:

is it possible to download some “factory Operating System” iso image from the WD web site, tranfser it onto the blank HD (2TB instead of 1) I put inside the case, and have the MyBook do the work it was originally ment for?

For the case only has ehternet, I was wandering that maybe I can put the HD into a USB case and use " dd" command from a Linux machine to copy the OS image on the HD.

Maybe the problem is the 2TB? Does the case only support 1TB?

Thanks

[vertical]

I am also interested in this and I would like to know what can we do if we use a blank HDD to make it function with MBL. The Linux distro used is Debian but have no idea which version and how to be installed. Any feedback is appreciated.

[YorkHui]

I’ve try  to clone the HD to new one with same WD 1T using Ghost and HDclone, the results  are failed, it can’t be found by WD setup program

[luigidangelo]

I’ve found something useful.

From a page dealing with the MyBook Live:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4952/wd-my-book-live-network-attached-hard-disk-review

I found a link to a page regarding MyBook World:

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-317579/complitly-debricking-…1

If you carefully follow the tutorial (especially the 16-step part added by the user munozdj) it works.

I’m not sure if it works at 100% on the MyBook Live. But 'ive been able to have the MyBook load the Operating System, set up a share and many other things. All starting from a blank HD.

PS

I know this not official support, but after a few days searching the web it was the only tutorial i found.

I like WD products, and I would appreciate tutorials like this made by them, which i wasn’t able to find on the official website.

[luigidangelo]

I hope I don’t get banned for this