I have a version 1 mycloud. 3TB. That was trundling along OK for about 5 years. Just for time machine back-ups & offline big file storage dump.
Rebooted a few times & it has always come back good up till now. Just Solid white LED.
Can’t get it through http://wdmycloud.local/UI/ or go > connect to server.
Router can’t no i.p. address. Network ports operating as normal. Swapped leads.
Nothing in my set-up has changed.
Drive out box booted with SATA to USB fine. Could see disc all fine through trial copy of EXTFS for mac. Repaired anyway. no problems. Can see all shares & files as I set up on main drive. Two Raid partitions. + other unreadable smaller partitions.
Can I update software through OSX Terminal. I am unsure what version it was V3 or v4. Will this make any difference. I will I be able to access drive if I overwrite the RAID partitions with the rootfs.img. without disrupting the existing partitions. Any help or assistance would be appreciated
Look at the bottom of the single bay/single drive My Cloud enclosure. If the PN # ends with (or is) “WDBCTLxxxxxxx-00” then its a first gen and uses the v3.x or more likely the latest v4.x firmware. If the PN # ends with (or is) “WDBCTLxxxxxxx-10” then it is a second gen v2.x firmware unit.
One can attempt to use one of the various unbrick methods to push the various “img” files to their respective partitions. Or one can backup all their user data from the drive and start an unbrick process from the start which includes repartitioning the drives and pushing the “img” files to the various partitions. User Fox_Exe has a set of unbrick directions that some have use successfully. Note that the process for the second gen is different than the first. One can try pushing just the IMG files and see if that fixes their issue of the drive not booting. But as always proceed at your own risk!!!
One may need to use a Linux boot disc or boot USB flash drive with a Linux distro to properly fix or unbrick a single bay My Cloud hard drive. Ubuntu is one such popular Linux distro that can boot a computer via a boot disc/USB flash drive.
Thanks for the reply. It is certainly a version 1. Code ends with 00.
I will delay doing anything until I have a rock solid backup.
If it is going v0.3 or 0.4 software is it going to mess up the partition map. Hose the drive?
Is there a way of telling looking at any of the files on the drive I can access the unix x2 raid partitions
If one is concerned about going from v3.x to v4.x one can always follow Fox_Exe’s directions and use the v3. file which will put the v3.x firmware on the first gen single bay My Cloud drive. From there one can update to the v4.x firmware. The partitions are the same between the v3.x and 4.x firmware which one will notice if one reads the Fox_Exe directions.
Yes. This is what I sort of figured. Thanks for your help confirming from your more experienced experience. Buying another hard drive to copy off the files. Then reformat. Probably get another manufacturers 2-bay raid. WD Drives are good, Cases, software less so Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help.