I have purchased SIX WD mycloud units from a sale stock
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I have extracted the six 3 tb hard drives for using them in other devices. Now I have six empty units, And this is a pity because I hace some 2 Tb hard drives and I could unbrick some units. It is apity leave them unused.
I tried unbrick guide but this is for gen 1 devices.
I am lost because I need a 2 Tb image suitable for this generation but I am not able to find one
¿WHAT CAN I DO WITH THESE EMPTY UNITS? CAN I INSTALL OTHER SO HERE OR SOMETHING FOR USING THEM???
Search the forum (magnifying glass icon upper right) for “unbrick”. There are a number of directions for both the first gen and second gen My Cloud units.
User Fox_Exe has a set of directions for the first gen 4v.x firmware and second gen v2.x firmware single bay/single drive My Cloud units. The directions are slightly different so make sure to use the correct one for your My Cloud model.
Should be. I think that like the first gen when unbricked, the second gen will resize the user data partition to fill the available hard drive space when rebooted (or a 40 second reset) after performing the unbrick steps.
the reason that the unbrick procedure work for different size disks. Is because the second line says to create a partition starting at 8591MB and thru the end of the disk because of the -1MB.
Use the number exactly as they are shown. All of the partitions are before 8591MB. So that partition will go to the end of the disk. Also notice that it is a -1MB not 1MB
When you telnet into the device. Do you get a login prompt? I think the username is root. With no password.
Not sure. Once logged in type the command listed.
The “q” command in the telnet terminal window at that particular step is to quit the parted module/program.
These directions are intended for those who have a basic understanding of Linux commands.
The commands in the instruction are literally copy and paste, for the most part, into the telnet command window.
The “web gui” (at that point in the directions) can be accessed using a web browser and inputting the IP address of the My Cloud into the browser’s address bar. You have to download the latest firmware from the My Cloud Support site and upload the firmware file via the “web gui”.
I have done first procedure. After rebooting with usb stick inserted led flash yellow/red
and I am not able to access using My Cloud
Power off, extract the usb stick and power on… blue flash and red flashing. i am not able to access
It is a pity because i have SIX units. I am working with WD red 2 Tb hard disks in 3 Tb model 2 gen
That procedure does work. Are you sure that you did each step? If you put the USB back in and reboot. You should be able to telnet in again and mount the boot partition and verify that you have the correct uimage and uramdisk.
Ok this afternoon I will do the procedure again, copy terminal and paste all here for viewing if everything is well done.
as i said, I purchased six WD mycloud 3 Tb in a stock bargain, extracted the six 3 tb red NAS WD hard drives for other NAS… and now I have six WD empty. I have 2 Tb WD GREEN for unbrick… But I never thought WD put operating system in hard disk. If tou loose hard disk tou leese the device… OS should have stored in flash memory in the device. Of course I am nor an expert in LINUX.
If I were capable unbricking at least ONE device, I think I can clone the disc and would work in other devices.
I can do the alternative procedure, but this says
Download and unpack files from WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud-Gen2/Developing: uImage-wdrecovery and uRamdisk-wdrecovery
Download for putting where??? In a usb stick?
A did not say before, thank you very much for your help, but WD should not store OS in hard disk. WD my cloud is a NAS, simple but is a NAS, And a NAS can replace disks without problem
It appears one is supposed to download the two files to the the My Cloud hard drive (I assume using the linux wget command) then unpack the two files (using the Linux tar -xvzf command). Or one could download the files to the USB drive, extract them, then copy the files to the My Cloud hard drive, or even to the location in the directions, using the appropriate Linux commands.
Not sure how this would work on a CD distro. They are copying the files to the Linux environment. Then copying them to the WD Cloud disk.
I have a Linux system so I just connected the disk to the linux system and followed the instructions.