How to recovery a single MyCloud disc after failure of control electronics.
Network card broken after lightning stroke.
I’m not reliable in case of any data loss in case this procedure won’t work with your data drive.
Testet only on my broken single 2TB WDMycloud.
Prerequesite:
SATA USB adapter, Linux based system (i.e.: Raspberry PI), some *nix (*=U/Li) know how.
How-To
Open the MyCloud housing, remove control electronics and all screws from disk drive.
Place disk in an external SATA adapter connected via USB to Raspberry Pi (in my case).
Disk will be automounted:
/dev/sda4 on /media/pi/02129f5b-a859-435f-b34a-17b49c9a6750 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2)
In your case 02129f5b-a859-435f-b34a-17b49c9a6750 wil be different.
cd /media/pi/<your individual number>
pi@raspberrypi /media/pi/02129f5b-a859-435f-b34a-17b49c9a6750 $ ls -l
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 2 root pi 4096 Dec 20 2015 backup
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4096 Sep 8 2019 cache
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 20 2015 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x 18 root pi 4096 Sep 8 2019 shares
All your date are in shares.
Content of shares on my drive.
pi@raspberrypi /media/pi/02129f5b-a859-435f-b34a-17b49c9a6750/shares $ ls -l
total 100
drwxrwx---+ 3 root pi 4096 May 7 2016 Pipi_Langstrumpf
drwxrwx---+ 2 root pi 4096 Sep 8 2019 doug
drwxrwx---+ 3 root pi 4096 May 19 2016 Hanni
drwxrwx---+ 4 root pi 4096 Apr 20 2016 Nanni
drwxrwx---+ 8 root pi 4096 Aug 31 2019 Kant
drwxrwx---+ 24 pi pi 4096 Jan 23 2019 PI
drwxrwxrwx+ 5 root pi 4096 Apr 5 2019 Public
drwxrwx---+ 3 root pi 4096 Dec 21 2015 Einstein
drwxrwx---+ 2 root pi 4096 Dec 21 2015 Heisenberg
drwxrwx---+ 2 root pi 4096 Dec 20 2015 SmartWare
drwxrwx---+ 33 pi pi 4096 Feb 2 2019 Sloterdijk
drwxrwx---+ 3 root pi 4096 Jun 8 2017 TimeMachineBackup
drwxrwxr-x 2 root pi 4096 Dec 31 2018 VIDEO-2018-12-31-21-48-32
Example to revover data in directory PI.
drwxrwx---+ 24 root pi 4096 Jan 23 2019 PI
cd into the directory PI will not work → permission denied.
sudo chown -R pi:pi PI
And you have access to all date in PI. Continue for all other shares. Access to public is possible without any changes.
Check necessary ownership if you are on any other Linux based system. pi:pi only works using a Raspberry PI.
