WD MyBrick
These instructions were put together by Ouglee over on the WD forums. This copy is mainly just to make my life easier in case things go astray. If only because when hacking My Cloud I’ve needed these a few times. If you think you have bricked your WD My Cloud or are getting a lot of errors, Do not turn it off a lot of the time running processes will be fine so you should be able to copy all your data off first. Once you’ve power cycled it if it doesn’t come back retrieving all that data is far more hassle. Also there were some differences in what I saw and did which I’ll note here. When running gparted make a note of the end of your data partition as it saves time later on In step 16 I was asked for an “end” as well as a start.… Continue reading