Reformating a my cloud home hard drive

[JoeySmyth]

@MONRADON

So how or what do I use to format the smaller drive to use in MY CLOUD and format the other drive to use as a normal hard drive ???

From searching this forum and reading how to replace hard drives (and partition them) in WD My Clouds … it’s not that simple and not for beginners.

Firstly, WD My Clouds use EXT4 Format/Partitions which is Linux OS … My Cloud Homes would be no different.

There’s plenty of guides for WD My Clouds but not My Cloud Homes (see below)

Personally speaking … if you have haven’t formatted the original hard drive, i would put it back in the WD My Cloud Home enclosure and abandon the headache of attempting replacing it with a smaller hard drive.

Rebuild your My Cloud or upgrade the HDD on it

This is what I did to rebuild my drive from soft brick. You can use this to upgrade your My Cloud to whatever side you want. This thread helped me:  http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/Here-is-WD-My-Cloud-2TB-virgin-disk-image/m-p/668617/highlight/false#M5968 Got the image. Used Ubuntu and restored it to the drive. All I have to do now is to resize the ext4 partition - sda4 and I’ll be back in business again This is what I did: -load up a live Ubuntu drive on a computer and…

Here is WD My Cloud 2TB virgin disk image

[r-linux.png] URL :  https://mega.co.nz/#!PElwgSyJ!Aicrq1FKKojLVjJgBAz37Sa-9F1KaPeeyMhZ3lN2vpg I made this, just hours ago and think good for bricked My Cloud. But I don’t know what Empty Space39 is. And I didn’t test yet.