Since i dont have a system running freenas, what can i use to burn in the drive using windows. Western digital my book external hard drive my book is a series of external hard drives produced by western digital. You can only return complete mbwe with disks to western digital to get a new one, if you have void warranty for warranty conditions see. Ubuntu this one can recognize and read and write ntfs very easily 2. Jan 24, 2018 this sent me down the rabbit hole of installing ubuntu 17.
I have tried it on a laptop with windows 7 and on a destop pc with windows xp, it doesnt work. Any copy, reuse, or modification of the content should be sufficiently credited to ccm. Our latest edition features visual, easytouse, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection. So i was wondering if anyone knew exactly how to get the wd my book to work on. However, what that means is that they only develop tools for accessing their products for windows and maybe os x. Western digital users are fed up with my cloud failures zdnet. How to unlock western digital drive on linux sofiane. Can someone please help, i have a wd my book world edition 500g blue rings. The drive is encrypted through the wd smartware program. Western digital has been selling these external storage devices with the highest storage capacity drives in their class for some time now the 3.
Apr 25, 20 recovering data from a wd mybook live 2tb 3tb or similar april 25, 20 linux admin this article was originally written in 20 and applies to a fairly old model of the wd mybook live. Western digital my book essential edition 1tb usb 2. Seems like a lot of storage for the buck, and reliable, cool storage at that. Hi, i have a western digital my book world edition external storage drive. Western digital my book home edition 1 tb external. Western digitals mybook drives are very convenient and popular storage options, but if the drive stops working then you might have success by giving it a quick. If you grab the right box you will likely get a white label functionally equal to 8tb red with 256mb cache inside the enclosure. I cut the vcc lead pin 8 from the eeprom, and the device detects as usb mass storage device vid 04d9 pid 20 rev 0103 and disables the goofy 4k sector translation mode as well, so regularly written 512e drives 2tb actually read correctly hope this is useful. The drive is not powering up western digital my book.
Western digital my book 8tb and my passport 4tb external. For windows, go to the start menu and select windows update. Mar 06, 2020 this document, titled how to unlock a wd external drive without a password, is available under the creative commons license. Ive mounted a western digital mybook live duo nas on my home network to my ubuntu 12. Western digital 10tb my book desktop hdd and 2tb my passport.
Data recovery from wd my book with destroyed mbr github. There is no user procedure provided by western digital to repair mbwe or start brand new disks. Western digital my book mini usb port replacement some of the newer enclosures are not fully mac compatible, like the seagate expansion. I set the drive up on my old vista machine, and when vista began crashing, i switched to ubuntu. How to recover data from bricked wd my book world edition. Got an external hard drive mybook western digital by someone who didnt know im using linux. They use some weird custom drive format that cant be read by osx or ubuntu or windows, so you cnat get the data off your backup if it crashes. Its a white book, western digital my book world device. In the end, the hard disk is just another electronic equipment with. Blue light can be a bit annoying, but i leave it unplugged most of the time anyways to preserve hd life. How to unlock a wd external drive without a password ccm.
The official line from western digital is that they do not support the use of their my book live nas drives with linux or unix. A clean ubuntu install should detect drive automatically and opening the drive should cause the ui to mount the drive for you. Wd my book essential wdbaaf0020hbk hard drive 2 tb. No power surge as all the other drives were spinning and no inproper eject notifications on any but the my book. Apr 07, 2014 western digital users are fed up with my cloud failures. How to use wd my passport with ubuntu linux wd portable. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the western digital my book article.
Western digitals documentation is very explicit that it, western digital, knows nothing about linux. There should be nothing special you need to do to make an external usb drive to work with ubuntu. The compatibility of a storage device with an os depends on the file system thats active on it. Of course, when i just plug in through the usb slot, the hard drive seems to work so no visiblehearable defect here, but my ubuntu. My book western digital speichern western digital store. Western digital my book mini usb port replacement some of the newer enclosures are not fully mac compatible, like the seagate expansion enclosure, so make sure it will work with mac before buying. A small addendum for others following this guide ensure that your linux distro is fairly current.
My book essential smart backup and storage our bestselling my book external drive is an elegant, highcapacity storage solution for all the chapters of your digital life. Wd my book install to ubuntu external drives for pc wd. So, you have to run wdidle only if you absolutely cant stand heads parking under any circumstances. Not aware of that problem it is not mentioned on the box i bought a wd my passport external hard disk. I currently use this for time machine backups for my mac but id also like to use it as a backup location for my linux box which is running ubuntu server. Western digitals my book series has been around for several years. I have a western digital 8tb external hdd which i need to reformat. The power button only works when the wd smartware software is installed on your computer. Recovering data from a wd mybook live 2tb 3tb or similar. Unfortunately, i have found that it has this socalled smartware that prevents it from being used on linux.
Wdbfjk0060hbk04 default wd my book 1230 vid 0158 pid 1230 rev 1065. After a lightning strike, the logic board for my wd my book live 3tb died. Is the wd passport hard disk compatible with ubuntu. Wd claimed that most my cloud and my book live device owners. Angry western digital my book 3tb not mounting but is being shown in terminal. What happens is i plug in my drive to power and the drive. When my western digital my book essential edition is. Western digital my book essential external hard drive on. But it wont boot with its own logicboard system because after some. I could load ubuntu on an old laptop if needed, but im a ubuntu noob. I needed to set it up to allow the backup scripts ssh access without a password. When powering down my western digital my book 1tb external. In this tutorial im going show you how to unlock the western digital drive my passport or other versions on linux.
I still have the ubuntu machine, but started using a mac. Our latest edition now features visual, easytouse, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection, giving you beauty, brains and simplicity. Im trying to follow the tutorial provided by a user on the wd forms for decrypting the drive via linux ubuntu studio and cannot open the file. I would like to access it from linux but so far have had only limited success. Searching the internet, one can find that this is not exactly an uncommon problem, and is diagnosed by the unit showing a solid blue light with the occasional flash to yellow. A successor to the my book branded drive this new my cloud branded offering provides a shell to a nas device and it was cheaper than a time capsule. The reason that i have five is because they are solid drives at an outstanding price. Hey, im having problems with my 1 tb wd my book essential drive external usb hdd. Available in various editions from essential, to premium to world edition.
Here is a complete list of links to hacks and howtos for the western digital my book world edition. How can i mount this drive on the linux server so that my cron backups can use it as a backup destination. Any answered by a verified tech support specialist we use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. Tips for getting started with the wd my book backup drive. For mac, go to the applemenu and select software update. I am trying to mount a western digital my book which i believe is formatted as ntfs on an uptodate version of ubuntu 14. Western digital wd my book 4tb best price in australia. List of all wd firmware and software available for download. As far as i know there was no trauma to the device. The version i have has a gb ethernet network connection. How to back up your computer automatically with mybook live and time machine backup, backup. Boot linux external hdd on surface book microsoft community. Western digital s users are sick to death of my cloud service failures. When my western digital my book essential edition is plugged up to the computer it does not come on.
I wont use world book white edition ii anymore, its about 9 years old and i just had to recover world book blue ring raid1, 10 years old where the controller failed capacitor burned on print many thanks for any help. Has not loaded right after i accidently unplugged it. Before that it was working perfectly on both computers. The drive has been removed from the initial case and i have attached it to a sata usb docking station. Id like to create a custom nas from a wd my book live so i disassembled it, deleted everything from the hdd and successfully installed an ubuntu server with another pc. A line of external hard drives by western digital, styled after hardbound books. I plugged it into my computer running ubuntu linux and immediately saw that linux could read and write the disk. So i was wondering if anyone knew exactly how to get the wd my book to work on linux. Wd my book essential drive not recognized on my mac. Before updating to the latest firmware, it is recommended that youve installed the latest updates and service pack on your computer. I have had good experiences with western digital wd drives and saw in the january 2014 issue of maximum pc a headtohead between dropbox and the new wd my cloud product. Wd my book essential wdbaaf0020hbk hard drive 2 tb usb 2.
Wait for seemingly very frequent sales on 8tb wd easy store usb externals, not my book externals mind you. Power button use the power button to safely power down the drive and avoid data loss or damage to the drive. I am now totally frustrated after spending the entire day trying to resolve backing up the data. After everything came up just fine, the drive doesnt work. Recovering data from a wd mybook live 2tb 3tb or similar april 25, 20 linux admin this article was originally written in 20 and applies to a fairly old model of the wd mybook live. This makes for difficult data recovery in the event of a failure of the usb portion of the device. Connect the wd drive back into a windows environment, and note which drive letter its assigned.
But it wont boot with its own logicboard system because after some research i have to realize that its a powerpc architecture stuff. I have a wd my book external hard drive i used to back up files in my windows computer,but now i have switched to ubuntu linux drive is password protected and unlock. I checked disk utility to see if it shows up there and it doesnt. Reformatting western digital mybook to work on linux and. Ive shucked wd my books, they were wd greens and were quite easy to shuck. Connect your new disk to a linuxpc im using windows with vmware ubuntu 9. Hi everyone, my 2tb my book western digital external drive died after a tiny bump from my elbow. My book essential hard drive is not recognized by windows. Check this compendium on rdatahoarder about them as there are variants and caviats. These are my experiences setting up the wd mybook live up using linux ubuntu. When i boot it up, it shows in nautilus on the side as my book under. The wd my book 4tb is an external hard drive from western digital technologies. Installed ubuntu yet again and this time i am wanting to use it for basically everything.
Slow access to western digital mybook live duo nas. Problem is, i have a lot of my stuff on my external hd. How to fix bricked wd my book world edition white light or. Unbricking a western digital mybook live endless turtles. The latest model for enthusiasts is the my book home edition, which is available in capacities of. Buying external wd books are cheaper than buying greens through. My book essential user manual about your wd drive 4 poweractivity led the poweractivity led shows the drives power state and activity as follows. My ubuntu installation was quite old and i needed to update it considerably for this procedure to work. I currently use this for time machine backups for my mac but id also like to use it as a backup location for my linux box which is running ubuntu. Mounting wd external hard drive mybook ubuntu forums. The hdd boots great on my old toshiba satellite that is also running ubuntu 17.
External hard disks that i have used in the past have had no problems being mounted on either linux or windows. Western digital my book 8tb and my passport 4tb external hdds. I did a liftandshift of my hardware to run some new networking, and to relocate the hub of my gear in my home. My goal is only transferring the data to another nas. Setting up ssh on western digital my book world devices. Unbricking a western digital mybook live a couple months ago, my 2tb wd nas decided to brick itself after i had to move it. Ive only had it for a couple months and now its not showing up on my macbook pro. Two of my new disks are 4tb wd reds wd40efrx, and right out of the box, parking is set to 300 seconds. How do i mount a wd mybook world network drive in linux. Connecting to it from my win7win8 machines is blinkofaneye performance. Find answers to when powering down my western digital my book 1tb external hard drive i see this and get this message from the expert community at experts exchange when powering down my western digital my book 1tb external hard drive i see this and get this message solutions experts exchange. I couldnt agree with this, so i decided to make it on my own and here it is. Install clean hdd in white light my book world edition.
It only mentions that there may exist generic drivers. Otherwise, you can leave it there, just like it is and start using disks right away ive replace my old 2tb wd blacks in my nas with them. Western digital my book essential external hard drive on linux 5 replies i decided to sell my desktop computer and use my laptop exclusively, i had no need to keep another computer and since i was only using it for doing backups i decided it would be better to save some space. What programs could i use on windows to do a complete and effective test and burn in on these drives. Wd my book essential wdbaaf0020hbk hard drive 2 tb usb. In the end, the hard disk is just another electronic equipment with binary instructions on it, so, technically, it should be compatible with any other. Tips for getting started with the wd my book backup drive posted on 201405 by michael milette november 16, 2016 there isnt a lot of documentation that comes in the box with the wd my book drive. My book essential user manual about your wd drive 1 about your wd drive welcome to your my book essential external hard drive, an elegant, highcapacity storage solution for all the chapters of your di gital life. Jan 20, 2016 hello, im looking to buy the my book duo wdblwe0040jchnesn for an external backup drive. Boasting a storage capacity of 4 tb, this file backup and storage device is the perfect companion anyone could ask for. Reformatting western digital mybook to work on linux and windows unfortunately, i have found that it has this socalled smartware that prevents it from being used on linux.
Restore the software on a mybook world edition hard drive. Essential edition, home edition, office edition, mirror edition, studio edition, premium edition, elite edition, pro edition, av dvr live edition, and the world edition. Reformatting western digital mybook to work on linux and windows. The hard drive hasnt fallen down or been physically damaged in any way. Western digital 10tb my book desktop hdd and 2tb my passport portable hdd bundle 10tb desktop hard drive and 2tb portable hard drivepassword protection available for security2year recovery software included3year warranty. How to revive western digital my book world edition complete walkthrough from attaching serial for debricking to installing debian.
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