Solid Yellow Light on Gen 1 WD My Cloud

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Hello world,

I have a problem with my Gen 1 2TB My Cloud drive. It’s broken.

I think what did it was trying to update my Gen 1 device with a firmware version meant for Gen 2 devices only, and so now when I turn the device on all it does is flash yellow, turn solid (yellow), and then the LED turns off completely.

I’m running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.2 on an early-2015 12’’ MacBook and I don’t mind losing the data that might be on the drive. Does anyone know what to do?

Vic

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It is NOT possible to update an older first generation v4.x My Cloud with the newer second generation v2.x firmware, nor is is possible to update a newer generation 2.x version My Cloud with the older first generation v4.x firmware.

Have you tried performing a 40 second reset?

http://support.wdc.com/KnowledgeBase/answer.aspx?ID=13986

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Hold on, let me try that.

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It didn’t work.

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Does anyone else have any ideas? Do I send it in for repairs?

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try removing the hard disk and hook it up to a desktop and see if the hard disk is still working

if the disk is toast then you need to spend some pesos and get more hard disks

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Thanks Vegan. Let me give that a shot.

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Did removing the drive and hooking it up to a PC ever solve the problem? I know this is an old thread, but last Saturday I updated the firmware on my Gen 1 2TB, then Sunday we had the breaker trip. I’ve tried both the 4 and 40 second solutions (article 24022) and nothing. The light flashes yellow for a while then shuts off altogether.

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I don’t think so. But I used the Disk Utility utility on my Mac to reformat the drive as per another thread and it’s working now.

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Did you lose all the data on the drive?

Paul Amador

pamador7@yahoo.com

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Yes.