Rebuild your My Cloud or upgrade the HDD on it

Legacy Products My Cloud OS 3
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I used lolly sticks. 

Just carfully prise the case slightly open at the back (where the plug sockets are) and jiggle in lolly sticks to hold it open. With a small led torch you can see the clips, so make sure the gap is open next to these and you can slide the outer part of the case towards the front.  Once it starts moving it comes off easily.

A few plastic cards would probably work, they are just about the same hight as the clips but lolly sticks give a bit more leeway.

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Hi,

 Please how to prepair 500gb or 750gb hard drive ?

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Has anyone tried that with a 6tb version? I’m trying, but resizing causes boot failure afterwards. Any ideas for that?

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wdMan0811 wrote:

Has anyone tried that with a 6tb version? I’m trying, but resizing causes boot failure afterwards. Any ideas for that?

I saw this thread and before I saw this post, I thought hey I should upgrade my 4tb cloud to 6tb; so I pulled up NCIX to see the current prices for a 6TB and they were $339.99 for a WD Red 6TB and then I checked on the price of a 6TB Cloud to find they were only $369.99 only a $30 difference for all the trouble.

Then I pulled up this post to say that to find that you were trying it…

I would “guess” that this would be a bios problem in recognizing the boot sectors on anything larger than 4tb. Again, guessing, that the workaround would to be booting from a smaller partition then mounting the remainder as a data partition. 

My guess comes from trying to boot from a raid 5-8TB 4x2TB = 6TB in Windows a few years ago resulting in having to create a 100GB boot partition and mounting the remainder as a Data.

Hopefully someone in the know will answer this question or perhaps someone with the 6TB cloud can dump a raw image.

Let us know how you resolve this problem.

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I think, its useful for someone.

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That’s a shame about not being able to upgrade disk to a 6TB drive. I was planning on doing that shortly.

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6TB Supported, but not tested.

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blackoutfolo wrote:

Hi,

 Please how to prepair 500gb or 750gb hard drive ?

I have an image base on 250GB, but you will need to resize it after you load the image for 500gb & 750gb.

NOTE: Not fully tested, but you can give it a try.

Just follow the steps for loading the 2TB image. Do share the result if you don’t mind.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-FmYB72q8KQmt1cWtobG9xd00/view?usp=sharing

Another video on how to open the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_eW25LGXcI

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I shall buy one this month or next and test it.

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Ralphael

Back in December Best Buy was selling the 6TB My Cloud for $279.00.

RAC

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rac8006 wrote:

Ralphael

 

Back in December Best Buy was selling the 6TB My Cloud for $279.00.

 

RAC

I shall await this new price and grab one. One 6TB Cloud and matching 6TB my book are now on my wish list…

Thanx RAC

edit: it is no longer listed on Best Buy which could mean two things: no stock or… discontinued…

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Raphael

Look here.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hard-drives/network-tablet-hard-drives/abcat0504004.c?id=abcat0504004

Shows a 6th for 296.99.

RAC

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rac8006 wrote:

Raphael

 

Look here.

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hard-drives/network-tablet-hard-drives/abcat0504004.c?id=abcat0504004

 

Shows a 6th for 296.99.

 

 

RAC

nice… except I live up here in Vancouver, BC, Canada :slight_smile:

Thanks for trying…

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Hi and thanks to all of you for the support and share your Knowledge.

I sido install a 1tb hdd on my wd my cloud using the fox_exe method, everithing is ok, but when i upgrade to firmware 4.*** the main web Page (localhost/gui) doesnt work, I can see the shares on my Windows pc and reach the twonky web acces(localhost:9000). Thats a little bit weird. Any help or idea?

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I can connect the drive to my mac simply by plugging it in via ethernet. Not sure if it’ll work with windows though.

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Was anyone successful replacing the HDD with 6TB already?

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Hey guys,

I tried to follow this instruction with the 2TB Image and a 4TB HDD, but unfortunately I had to skip #14 and 15 because I didn’t received an error. After typing in unit s + p, I only got an overview about 2 existing sectors (not 4 as it’s written here). Furthermore, the start sector of the last partition (which was 2 in my case) was 77056s.

I continued with step 16 (but didn’t got a warning again) and finished the instruction, but currently I only get a permanent white LED and can’t connect with the software.
Do you have an idea what I’m doing wrong or another solution?

Thanks and best regards!

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Hi I’m hoping some clever person could help me… I’ve tried several times to get the mycloud up and running with a WD Red 3TB drive (and the drive proves to be fine). I get all the said partitions and everything looks correct to my untrained eye, but when I reassemble the Mycloud and plug it back in, I get a flashing blue light for about 5 seconds which then changes to a red flashing light. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
I’ve tried several virgin images all with the same result.
Please help me before I take a bat to it :cricket_bat_and_ball:

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Did you do a 40 second reset after reassembling the My Cloud?

A user here has put together a variety of directions for replacing the My Cloud hard drive.
Gen 1 (v3.x/v4.x): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVZTBtM3EyRVhDVms
Gen 2 (v2.x): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVRXllYjY5RG1CZEU

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Hi. Could someone upload a 3tb virgin image of disk, pls? Need it :frowning:

Thank you…