Hello all,
I have a My Cloud that failed after about one year–quickly blinking red light, googled around, but couldn’t find a way to rehabilitate it.
I wanted to recover some of the data I had on it, so I recently borrowed a Thermaltake blacX, removed the housing from the drive itself, and connected it to my Macbook Pro (2012). I got the error “the disk you inserted is not readable by this computer.” I ran Disk Utility’s “First Aid,” which said to run First Aid in Recovery. I restarted the computer in recovery mode, and still got the error saying to run First Aid in Recovery (despite being in recovery mode!).
So now I’m not entirely sure what to do. I read about a way of forcing it to run with command line, but there was a warning to have a backup first, and while I do have a backup of many of the things on this My Cloud, I don’t have all of them, which is why I’m trying to recover it at all.
I was wondering if anyone else has run into and resolved any similar problems, or if there are any tips or suggestions you can provide. Here is what I see in Disk Utility:
You can see the size of all the partitions in it, most of them quite small. All are MS-DOS exception partition #1, 2.15GB, which lists its format as “Uninitialized Linux Swap.” I was wondering if the readability issues might have something to do with this partition, and whether erasing it would be a good idea?
Any ideas on best chances for how to pull the data off would be much appreciated.
