Hello everyone. I read a lot of guides like this now, finally I don’t have any idears left to get my WD My Cloud working…
Since the My Cloud has only one drive, I recently bought a My Cloud EX2 Ultra to replace it. So I put the WD Red 3 TB from the My Cloud to the EX2 Ultra and bought an additional 3 TB WD Red to configure it as a mirror for the first one for more data security. The EX2 Ultra works flawlessly so far - so far, so good.
Unfortunately, I did not take an image of the HDD before formatting it in the EX2 Ultra since I already found many images to do that using Linux afterwards. So I trusted in being able to get it back alive later (I already read that the My Cloud has the OS on the drive)… big mistake.
I have a 2 GB WD Green drive that I’m planning to use for the “old” My Cloud. So I set up a virtual machine with Lubuntu and tried everything I read here and in other forums or blogs.
- [GUIDE] Debrick a completely dead MyCloud
- WD MY CLOUD HACKING – Emacs, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Linux and Programming etc
- Replace a hard drive on WD My Cloud and restore image (Advance) – eriffoorp
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVRXF4aFpYS2dzMEE
- How I replace the HDD of mycloud gen2
This one here was the most technical advanced i’ve read: Replace a hard drive on WD My Cloud and restore image (Advance) – eriffoorp - So I even tried to rebuild the virtual RAID 1 on the drive and so on.
The images of the Gen. 1 WD My Cloud do not work on Gen. 2, so the only things left where the guide mentioned above with the Google Drive Mirror of it: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVRXF4aFpYS2dzMEE
But that recovery kernel I loaded there did not accept the Firmware. The My Cloud booted to the recovery mode as expected and asked for a firmware image, but the progress counter always stayed at 0% - even with fully formated partitions and even created and ext4 formatted RAID 1 partitions on it for the Firmware.
I even tried to get Ubuntu running on it (you get the files from the Google Drive mentioned above), but Ubuntu did not start any server - neither the web interface, nor SSH was reachable afterwards.
I contacted the WD support, but - surprise, surprise - no response yet.
The only way to get the bricked thing back running would be a working image of a gen 2 WD My Cloud I guess…
