What to do to extract data on HD when PCB fails and cant find a replacement with exact model/Rev. number

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@juanmanuel010588a

Buenas noches, una consulta…de que capacidad era su dispositivo antes de realizar el cambio por el disco de 8TB. Si fue una capacidad menor (4TB)…podria compartir el procedimiento que utilizo para colocar el de 8TB?
Muchas gracias

Translation:
Good evening, a question…what capacity was your device before making the change for the 8TB disk. If it was a smaller capacity (4TB)… could you share the procedure you used to put the 8TB one?
Thank you

If you want to replace the single bay/single drive My Cloud (not My Cloud Home) hard drive, use the forum search feature (magnifying glass icon top right) and search for “unbrick”. There are plenty of discussions on how to replace the single bay My Cloud hard drive with a larger (or smaller) hard drive.

I have used a number of different hard drives in a single bay first generation My Cloud. From 250GB hard drives up to 12GB. I’ve even used 2.5 inch laptop style HDD in the single bay My Cloud enclosure. Some posts I’ve made over the years on using different hard drives in a first gen single bay My Cloud:

8TB wd red drives

Success! The WD EasyStore 8TB drive I purchased from Best Buy was made in Thailand. And it is the 256mb cache WD Red version. My Cloud enclosure was a first gen version. I used Fox_Exe’s unbricking directions for unbricking/replacing HDD for first gen’s. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVbzZac0plbkZKeGM/view The those directions have a broken link to the archive file one needs to download. I used the original_v04.01.02-417.tar.gz file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_…

[GUIDE] Upgrade a working My Cloud to a bigger HDD (easy steps)

Finally got CloneZilla to work at cloning to a new larger drive. In my case I wound up having to put the existing My Cloud drive and the new one in USB to SATA enclosures then perform the clone. For some reason if I used my PC’s SATA ports CloneZilla would throw errors. [Screenshot_2019-11-08] Yeah that’s right. That is not a typo. 22 TB’s of free space. The My Cloud has an internal 12 TB drive and a second 12 TB drive attached via USB. These two drives will be going into a better …

[Guide] How to use a 2.5 inch hard drive in a single bay My Cloud

How to use a 2.5 inch hard drive in a single bay My Cloud Boilerplate Warning: Proceed at your own risk!!! Backup any user data, if possible, when erasing or replacing an existing hard drive!!! Note: This was done on a first gen v.4x single bay My Cloud. I assume the same can be done on a second gen single bay My Cloud running the v.2x firmware. Note on SSD Drives: I tried using two different spare SSD drives (a 64GB and 120GB drive) and was not able to get either one to properly boot. Both g…

Generally most people will use the old Fox_exe user’s directions for unbricking. That person’s files have been archived by someone else to another repository location for access.

Repository: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/

First gen directions: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen1/Replace%20HDD%20-%20English.txt
Original_v03.04.01-230.tar.gz: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen1/Backups/original_v03.04.01-230.tar.gz
Original_v04.01.02-417.tar.gz: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen1/Backups/original_v04.01.02-417.tar.gz

Second gen directions: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen2/_Unbricking_en.txt
usbrecovery.tar.gz: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen2/usbrecovery.tar.gz
Alternate way second gen files:
uImage-wdrecovery: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen2/Developing/uImage-wdrecovery
uRamdisk-wdrecovery: https://wd.hides.su/fox_exe/WDMyCloud-Gen2/Developing/uRamdisk-wdrecovery