Unbricking 4tb MyCloud

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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I have a 4tb MyCloud I recently retrieved data from for a client. I had to format the drive to NTFS to get to the data and now I need to find a 4tb image to unbrick it and return it to its original state.

Has anybody any idea where I can find a 4tb MyCloud image?

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I’m not entirely sure how reformatting an ext4 disk to NTFS would help recover data, but…

Here are the two threads I’ve been hanging on to for unbricking.

Fox_exe here:

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Cloud/Rebuild-your-My-Cloud-or-upgrade-the-HDD-on-it/td-p/675109/page/3

Or cnlinya here:

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Cloud/How-to-unbrick-a-totally-dead-My-Cloud/td-p/651195/page/5

I don’t think it’s necessary to have the exact size image: most of the guides discuss resizing once you have the device booting.

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If you re-formatted the drive, how were you able to retrieve the data?
I recently bricked my 4TB cloud. I succeeded in extracting the drive from its case and connected to my laptop, BUT it wants to format it in order for the drive to be used. I don’t want to lose the data on it ( unless it’s my last resort… don’t trust windows ever since it only re-formatted 32GB of my 256 GB thumbdrive ).

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The My Cloud hard drive is formatted in EXT3/EXT4. Windows won’t read the drive UNLESS you use a third party program like Linux File System for Windows by Paragon Software (https://www.paragon-software.com/home/linuxfs-windows/#). Or better just use a Linux Boot Disc (like one from Ubuntu - https://www.ubuntu.com/download) to boot your computer into Linux and from there you can read from the drive to copy the files and then unbrick the drive using one of the various unbricking procedures.