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I had several problems with /mnt/md0 and /dev/md0 being mounted or not — mostly /dev/md0. I used an Ubuntu 12.04 LiveCD so I had a pristine Linux system booted from a CD. I had to install mdadm and...
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Hello, Thanks for your answer (again). Sorry for the delay, I was out for the week end. I tried several time, nerver woking … I still have one of the two errors. Check out about the other one:...
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That is pretty much same errors I got. I don't remember: ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root dir MyBookLive disk was attached to an USB-SATA...
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Hi, You really helped me already!! The official diagnosis: My hard drive is dead. I tried 2 time to make a full format, both time I had a error. And when I run the diagnosis (took 6h) It's saying that...
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Help mounting sdb4 Data Disk. I accidentally deleted files from my data disk under /shares/Videos on my 2Tb Mybook Live. I removed the drive and connected it to my Ubuntu machine and see several...
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In /t-317579/complitly-debricking-guide-draft#post-1213799 I have not tried this but another poster used debugfs to access the files: sudo debugfs open -b 65536 /dev/sdb4 (use ls to check if you are...
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I tried that and it works, sudo mkdir /mnt/vid sudo debugfs open -b 65536 /dev/sdb4 cd /shares/Videos rdump "Videos" /mnt/vid but only if the files are actually there. If the files have been deleted...
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Thank you SO much! Trying to install miniDlna I bricked my NAS and you showed me how to fix it. If anyone is planning to use an Ubuntu LiveCD please remember to: a) Download the firmware to an...
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Hello .. I have had problems installing a new hard drive in my my book live, I install the script, comprising first and then the blue LED is red, it is not a hardware problem, because the hard drive...
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Dan, just rebuilt my 2TB My Book Live…script worked great so thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you :-) FYI for those interested: — used Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed on a stand-alone box — installed...
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Dan, Script is working well. Slight problem. When it tries to extract the img to the HDD, I get this error: checking: 010507 searching: ./*/*01*05*07*.img searching: ./*/*01*05*07*.deb will extract:...
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Will this work on the 4TB version? It has two drives, not sure how to proceed with this..
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So I ran this script on my both drives (I have a 4tb duo) and the dashboard shows up, but i think it's only recognizing one drive now: MyBookLive:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on...
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Thanks, Dan, that helped me a lot in debricking my MBL 3TB (which failed due to disk read errors, so I won't use this device any more for serious data, just was curious if it would work :-)! It also...
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Thanks very much Dan for your work on this script. I just ran it on a bricked MBL 2TB and I'm back to normal.
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Hi, First of sorry but I'm newbie to this forum and I'm trying to debrick a 2TB unit. I've installed CURL and ADADM from Ubuntu software sources but where can I get the firmware and script files?...
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hi. i've just debricked my book live duo. but swap doesn't works MyBookLiveDuo:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 253632 237120 16512 0 9536 63552 -/+ buffers/cache: 164032 89600 Swap:...
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Thank you for this! I've already debricked my MBL 3TB twice. I may have missed the answer to this, but what does swap do? I've spent a lot of time getting my MBL to where I want it to be. I've...
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rjg2bucks, I think it is important to answer your question, with a list of very explicit steps that a newbie can follow easily. Although there is great information on this site, I just didn't see a...
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fost-expert, did you use the right *.deb file for the duo? Do you also not see your swap usage when you type the following? MyBookLive:/etc# top (You can type "q" to quit the top command). As a...
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hi all. sorry for my english, i am from russia WD MyBookLiveDuo - when switched on, the blue light stays on when the network patch, the indicator does not glow script debrick.sh started and working...
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looking for some advice when I copy and paste chmod +x sudo repair_mybooklive.sh into the terminal I get sudo repair_mybooklive.sh not found when it is in downloads and labelled repair_mybooklive.sh...
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd ~/Downloads ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ ls -l total 137364 -rw-— 1 ubuntu ubuntu 140635334 Oct 1 14:40 apnc-024105-034-20130215.deb drwxrwxr-x 3 ubuntu ubuntu 60 Oct 1 15:29...
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Can someone give me advice on where I have went wrong with above thanks
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All, I really need your help. I bricked my WD 3TB MLB, i've been trying to follow the script and get the follow error message can anybody help be find out what im is wrong or what im doing wrong. **...
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Just to add if anybody could even just post the commands i need so i could use to get the data off the /dev/sdb4 on to another drive so i can at leased access it would really help, if this is at all...
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Hello Dan, Hello PJSingh5000, Thank you very much for your help! I could also manage to win back my MBL 3Tb today. I wish you all the best! Regards, wikilino
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Well another very happy guy! Just recently got MLB and it got bricked by a firmware update. Was really upset cause I had just spent all kinds of time putting all my backup stuff on the drive and...
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I can't believe this really worked!! I had to apt-get install parted curl and mdadm and everything worked like a charm!! Thanks buddy, you saved my day!!
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Thanks!!!!!!! It worked like a charm! It didn't found the HD automatically, but by adding the path as commented in your script, it worked just fine! Thanks again!!
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I used debrick script. Everything seems ok on the command line (no errors). But when I put disk back into WD MyBookLive- the light stays "yellow". Can everybody say- why?
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Tried it, but I'm getting this error: script will use the following disk: Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be. This might mean that another operating system...
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Did anyone get this error? My mybooklive is 3TB. Using Ubuntu 12.04 ** DISK ** script will use the following disk: Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be. This...
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Despite the error above, I decided to hit 'y' and continue. Fortunately the script run without any more error and my 3TB mybooklive is now successfully debricked. So I want to thank you again for one...
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Dear Dan, Congratulations for your script which is very excellent, indeed. My MBL was bricked after some unfortunate manipulations and I was very sad, not because of the lost data (could be recovered...
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This script will work for a 4TB wd MyCloud? Anyway thank you for your work.
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This script will work for a 4TB wd MyCloud? Anyway thank you for your work.
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THe story. I have a Mybook Live 3TB Nas, and due to power/circuit break in my house, it won't start up. Now i found a repair script that can help you unbrick it, but there's a crucial superblock...
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Thks to all who contributed :) especially the script designer. My Book Live got bricked by my own stupid move to update Bash, so i disassemble it, connect it via SATA-to-USB2.0 converter to my laptop...
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Thanks for this post and the helpful comments below, you all saved my weekend!!!
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Hi all and thanks for your work. I've tried to debrick my MBL 1TB with the script but I've received the messege DebrickMBL: 67: DebrickMBL: Syntax error: Bad for loop variable I'm a rooky on linux and...
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Problem is posix format of the script….it needs to run as bash. When the script runs as dash (/bin/sh) the arithmetic for loop is not supported and thus causes your error. Test the scripthere:...
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I've got the same issue. And I've found out how to fix this. First, you've got this problem because of the bad blocks on partition sda1 or sda2. In my case there were several bad blocks on sda1,...
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Hi Dan! First of all, thank you so much for your effort putting this together! It is really awesome! I have a WD MBWEII 2x2TB running RAID 1. One of the disks failed and now my device is bricked. I've...
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Hi Dan! First of all, thank you so much for your effort putting this together! It is really awesome! I have a WD MBWEII 2x2TB running RAID 1. One of the disks failed and now my device is bricked. I've...
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I know this is an old thread and old comment, but I wanted to correct a typo in step 6. The command should be "sudo chmod +x repair_mybooklive.sh" instead of "chmod +x sudo repair_mybooklive.sh". I've...
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Hi Dan! Thank you for the nice script. I have one question about the execution of the last part, where the image is supposed to be written… When started the script for a very first time it was asking...
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The recovery process finished after more than 30 hours: ... Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 99.94% done, 33:15:40 elapsed. (17407/0/0 errors) ... Checking for bad blocks (read-only test):...
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GUIDE 1) For those wanting to replace the resetButtonAction.sh script so the script will run by simply pressing the reset buton 1) Download resetButtonAction.zip from 2) Download the latest firmware...
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