Stuck with Diskless WD My Cloud Home

[puneetmadan]

Hi friends,

I bought a diskless WD My Cloud Home from someone bought only to take out its 6TB disk, thought I would use my spare 2TB WD Blue drive to use as NAS.

Do i have to format this disk before I connect and use it in My Cloud Home? What is the format and is there any image available online?

I tried connecting this drive as is and WD My Cloud Home shows steady lights from very beginning and is not detectable on My Cloud App.

Would appreciate your help…

Thanks,
Puneet

[JoeySmyth]

saw a post where someone replaced the My Cloud Home internal hard drive … formatted and partitioned correctly (so they say) … now the 9-Digit Reg Code doesn’t work.

you bought a shucked enclosure and it was really cheap for a reason … ie. the chances of it being used without the original hard drive are probably slim to none.

Harddrive replace in a MyCloud HOME (not DUO!)

I want to replace the hard drive in my MyCloud HOME. I already tried it. It was even automatically formatted 1: 1 as the original disk. My way: Power off. Built-in HDD. Press reset and power plug in on the same time. Then the LED flashes quickly. Power off. Power on again. After that, the hard drive was just formatted like the original hard drive. With 23 Partitions and so on. The problem is now the 9-digit code in the reinstallation apparently no longer work. It will not be recognized as a n…

[ematta]

The My Cloud Home single bay drive are not field serviceable. In other words, you can’t replace the Hard Disk.

But there’s some alternatives!
You can install Debian and use it as an NAS.
You can check this thread for more info:

Install Debian on WD My Cloud home

I am not really a C-programmer either Already looked at the file and decided that a proper compile would be best. I tried the accompanying toolchain on native AARCH64, Debian-WSL, Cygwin and a Debian-x64 but I couldn’t execute any of the binaries. That is my current hold up

Good Luck!