Restore My Cloud from scratch after broken HDD replacing

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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I have WD My Cloud gen 1 I guess, for one HDD.

My HDD had died.
And I replaced it to new one WD 8TB HDD.

My Cloud P/N: WDBCTL0040HWT-10.

Where I can get firmware images to install on HDD?

I’am linux user, so I know hot to use dd command, gparted and etc.

But all links that I had found is with broken URLs.

Will be very appreciated.

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Search the subforum (magnifying glass icon upper right) for “unbrick” plenty of discussions on how to unbrick a first gen or second gen single bay My Cloud, the process is different for each version.

Example of past recent discussions: https://community.wd.com/search?q=unbrick%20category%3A105%20order%3Alatest
How I replace the HDD of mycloud gen2

First gen single bay My Cloud - P/N: WDBCTLxxxxxxx- 00 , FW 04.xx.xx
Second gen single bay My Cloud - P/N: WDBCTLxxxxxxx- 10 , FW 02.xx.xx

User Fox_exe has some directions for each version that some have used to successfully install a new hard drive to a single bay My Cloud.

User Fox_exe repositories:
Main Repository: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/
First Gen: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen1/
Second Gen: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/

First gen directions:
English: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen1/Replace%20HDD%20-%20English.txt
Russian: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen1/Replace%20HDD.txt
File(s) used in first gen:
original_v03.04.01-230.tar.gz: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen1/Backups/original_v03.04.01-230.tar.gz
original_v04.01.02-417.tar.gz: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen1/Backups/original_v04.01.02-417.tar.gz
Latest first gen firmware: http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?g=904

Second gen directions:
English: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/_Unbricking_en.txt
Russian: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/_Unbricking_ru.txt
usbrecovery.tar.gz: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/usbrecovery.tar.gz
Alternate method files:
uImage-wdrecovery: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/Developing/uImage-wdrecovery
uRamdisk-wdrecovery: https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/Developing/uRamdisk-wdrecovery
Latest second gen firmware: http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?g=904

Note: Because the uRamdisk-wdrecovery and uImage-wdrecovery do not have file extentions they may not download correctly. One may have to copy the URL links and paste them into a web browser to have the two files download properly.

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Thank you!

I trying to apply the instructions from
https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/_Unbricking_en.txt

Created a FAT32 partition on a USB flash drive
Extracted boot folder from usbrecovery.tar.gz

Connect this USB drive to WD MyCloud, power on. Wait for the yellow-red (flashing) light.

Connected the network cable (checked).
Connected a USB drive to the USB port on the WD My Cloud.
Power off and on WD My Cloud.
But nothing happened …

The LED on the face flashes quickly in red.
My route doesn’t see new devices.

What could be wrong?

PS
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As the post above indicates the directions (and files) are different for the second gen single bay My Cloud. As indicated above if the P/N number of your single bay My Cloud ends with “-10” you have a second gen not a first gen. Make sure to use the correct directions and files for your device generation

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I mixed up links in the post above, I used instructions for second gen.

https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/_Unbricking_en.txt

Any way, now I used “Alternative way”
Manualy allocated HDD partitions.
And now MyCloud is booted.

I see “Safe mode” at WEb interface of WD My Cloud.

PS

Upload File:
chose
My_Cloud_GLCR_2.41.116.bin

And nothing hapens again.
Just red led light permanently more then 10 minutes.

PS

reboot
And see “Safe mode” again

May be I choosed wrong firmware file?

Very apriciated for yuor help )

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