However, the world book white edition ii is only compatible with wd green hdds which are no longer produced. See hacking wd mybook world ed wiki and consult first steps with mbwe document. Apr 05, 20 i have a wd mybookworld network drive connected directly to my computer but it is not showing up under network in explorer for some reason. Trying to connect my western digital my book usb connection. You cant connect to the file share because its not secure. Second, after locating a pc that can connect to your wd drive keep in mind this is the drive you actually physically removed from the worldbook housing go to the link i provided.
Find answers to can i access my wd world book without using mionet. Choose try ubuntu it will boot directly without any changes on your system drive. I could not figure out what default ipaddress it uses when no dhcpserver is available. I have my dhcp scopes in the high range and all my static addressed devices in the low range so sometimes, i have gotten confused as to what address space i used for labs, house, common devices, etc. Help needed to set up wd mybook world edition for use with. Drivers for wd my book world edition ii in windows 10 other. Both units use the same housing and therefore have the same small. I have a western digital mybookworld nas that i keep all my critical files on.
I know it is working properly because i can manually type in \\mybookworld it will show up but once i close that window its gone again. However, what that means is that they only develop tools for accessing their products for windows and maybe os x. Hacking western digital mybook world edition this page provides information on how to hack your mybook world edition, so as you can improve performance and add new features. Is there a guide for dummies on how to mount my mybook on ubuntu 9. The version i have has a gb ethernet network connection. On windows and other operating systems youll need to. I have a western digital my book world edition external storage drive. No matter from which win 7 system i try to connect from, with all security software shut off, it wont accept my password even though i know its correct. Best external hard drive deals in may 2020 toms guide. How to copysave my files from wd my book world edition white light i or ii further as mbwe hard drives when mbwe doesnt boot up at all or.
Windows 10 wd mybook not recognized anywhere on my dell. Many viewers have asked if its possible to connect a wd my cloud directly to a computer using an ethernet network cable. Do not install myonet, its rubbish, makes transfer. I am presuming that you have not made any changes to the name of your device in the wd my cloud settings in this guide in terms of the device name. Wd my book world edition 2 blue rings firmware install urgent.
I originally relied on the very flexible backup features built into netgears readynases using an old nv. You should be able to access the mybook on a linuxunix system by using the smbclient or mount. Mar 18, 2015 how to connect two routers on one home network using a lan cable stock router netgeartplink duration. I am trying to mount a western digital my book which i believe is formatted as ntfs on an uptodate version of ubuntu 14. Plugged it into a switch and its not being recognised at all, even downloaded the wd cd with the drivers and the detection tool doesnt see it either. Connect your new disk to a linuxpc im using windows with vmware ubuntu 9. It shows up in devices, but in device manager it has a yellow triangle with an exclamation on it. If you have having trouble with it, i can help you try and mount the drive manually through the terminal. How to access wd my book ii world edition, without mionet. Installed ubuntu yet again and this time i am wanting to use it for. Insert the external hard disk and check if the driver is getting install or not. The worlds most popular operating system across public clouds and openstack clouds find out more about ubuntus cloud building software, tools and service packages. Paste the command below and run to create a mount point, you can replace jishare to what you want.
Jan 04, 2014 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. Smbv1 wd myworldbook is inaccessible through my current windows 10 build. If your product is not listed above, please visit the product page. List of all wd firmware and software available for download. 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. Lets say if i am not at the office, and need to access the wd to get what i need. Its okay if the drive powers on, then off, or if you see some lights come on for a brief second. Im struggling with trying to follow the instructions here. If status lights are reporting unable to boot, just try replacing the battery on the controller board before attempting to recover data from the drive. But it wont boot with its own logicboard system because after some research i have to realize that its a powerpc architecture stuff. Then, press power button at the back of the mybook world for 3 seconds until led at the bottom goes on until it boot up. If you have then just just substitute the default name for your device name in the later steps. Wd my book live hidden ssh enable introduction update 9182012 added information on making rsync start upon reboot.
The network settings should have reset to dhcp default. Configuring western digital mybook world edition ii. But the thing is that the post has to do with local network access. It is very easy to connect kodi to your wd my cloud and use as a media server using the following instructions. Reply to us with the information, so that we can assist you better. Mybook is powered by arm9 microprocessor, it has 32mb of sdram and boots from internal hard drive. Connecting nas directly to ethernet port ubuntu forums.
I am looking for internet access, like the one mionet provides. So, the thing is that one of the drives is dead and. Wait 30 seconds for wd mybook world initialize and shutdown itself all 8 front led go off. This, without access to the wd external drive, is impossible. The storage and backup strategy here at the smallnetbuilder labs my humble home office has evolved over time. Wd my book world edition white after building a pc with win 10, ive not had my wd my book world edition used for a good while, decided to plug it in and install the drivers etc. Here is how to get at your data from a failed 1tb wd my book world blue ring. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. But if i try to mount it as a secondary disk, it refuses to. Smbv1 wd myworldbook is inaccessible through my current. I just bought a wd my book world edition ii external drive its great over the network but today i tried plugging it in my dell xps 30 with. Why would a first world alien opt to have a brood of dumb children rather than one smart one. But with the new windows 10 i get a black window in the lowerright that says the drive does not work.
A clean ubuntu install should detect drive automatically and opening the drive should cause the ui to mount the drive for you. I have a 1td wd mybook that i could connect to my gateway and even do. 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. How to recover data from wd my book world edition nas device hacking wd mybook world ed as unfortunately i have never used linux before and its not exactly plug and play. Wd my book world edition white solved windows 10 forums. Does anyone know how to give my wd my world book hard drive a new ip address so it shows up on my network best answer. Gday mate, you need to connect to you mybook world via.
How to recover data from bricked wd my book world edition white. I have a wd mybookworld network drive connected directly to my computer but it is not showing up under network in explorer for some reason. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. Use the wd link software or a network scanner to locate the drive its ip on the local network.
Western digital my book connection to windows 10 microsoft. I would like to access it from linux but so far have had only limited success. If youre using an earlier mybook world or something i believe they used xfs and software raid partitions which this blog post isnt really about. May 21, 2010 no matter from which win 7 system i try to connect from, with all security software shut off, it wont accept my password even though i know its correct. Please note that i am a novice on linux thanks in advance. According to the manual, the mybook supports both the cifssmb and the nfs protocols cifssmb is the protocol natively used by windows for accessing network drives. Aug 28, 2015 tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. How to revive western digital my book world edition complete walkthrough from attaching serial for debricking to installing debian. Is it possible to download the iso that is used in the nextcloud boxs sd card and install such on the wd my cloud drive remotely. Sep 25, 2008 recover data from my book world edition a friend of mine has had a western digital my world book network attached 500gb storage device. I have a western digital my world book live nas device. Get the mac address of the network interface off of the sticker on the back of the unit and configure your dhcp services to statically assign an ip to the western digital box. If you have problems with other linux distributionsversions simply use ubuntu 10. Mbwe shows failed datavolume and is not accessible anymore solution.
Connect the removed physical drive to usb port using whatever adapter you have and power up the drive. Mybook world on ubuntu other network drives wd community. As a matter of fact i found the wrt3200 superb at serving up files. But when i plug the wd drive into one of my usb slots, the disk does not mount. Aug 18, 2014 many viewers have asked if its possible to connect a wd my cloud directly to a computer using an ethernet network cable. This share requires the obsolete smb1 protocol, which is unsafe and could expose your system to attack. Mar 09, 2010 trying to connect my western digital my book usb connection i have been informed by wester digital that it is not compatibile with windows 7 and was informed to ask if there is a download or patchesfor this to work, i have loads of things stored on my book and im worried that i have lost it all. Unfortunately his house was the recipient of a electrical storm that blew out most of the equipment on his home network. This book contains many real life examples derived from the authors experience as a linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant.
Apr 29, 2012 im struggling with trying to follow the instructions here. I have a wd mycloud 2tb nas wdbctl0020hwteesn running busybox linux v1. However, what that means is that they only develop tools for accessing their products for. The router doesnt recognize the usb and after searching on verizon support forums i found that the usb ports are for.
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. Install clean hdd in white light my book world edition. Similar situation is with wd my book world edition i white light or with my previous hdd that has stopped working. Help rescuing the data from my mybook world edition avforums. So i set up my router as dhcp server and user nmap x. When i plug in my wd my cloud ubuntu instantly recognizes it when you open file manager and click on browse network at the left pane. Wd my book world edition usb connection july 2011 forums.
I bought a raspberry pi with the intention of using it to play movies stored on my nas, as well as browsing the web, so i will be using raspbian my nas is a western digital mybooklive on my home n. How to recover data from bricked wd my book world edition. I have an ubuntu linux machine, testdisk, rlinux and a lot of tools that claim to recover linux files, so, i want to connect the two sata drives from. Looks like a driver issue and the microsoft community says wd has no plans to update the drivers. I cant connect to my wd mybook world edition from win 7 64 bit. The world s most popular operating system across public clouds and openstack clouds find out more about ubuntu s cloud building software, tools and service packages. Since you mentioned that you are planning to replace the device with a newer nas and since i was unfortunately not able to assist you, i took the liberty of generating a 30% discount coupon for you for our official wd store.
How to recover data from wd my book world edition nas device. When i boot it up, it shows in nautilus on the side as my book under. My wd 4tb mycloud worked without issue as did serveral esata and usb drives. There should be nothing special you need to do to make an external usb drive to work with ubuntu. I visited my computer where the disks at least show up in the list. Solved wd myworld book ip address spiceworks general. It does offer a scan to fix it but wd does not recommend it without backing everything up on the laptop hard drive first. How do i mount a wd mybook world network drive in linux. A dialog box will show up that says connect to server like in the picture below. I cant connect to my wd mybook world edition from win 7. Connect wd my cloud or nas directly to a mac or windows pc. The wd mybook world runs a linux system which can be opened. Help needed to set up wd mybook world edition for use with ipad. The model i have is my book world edition 2t white light.
You can enable ssh and install additional packages. How can i mount this drive on the linux server so that my cron backups can use it as a backup destination. So then i thought what if i plug the usb cable into the synology itself. Sep 14, 20 9connect wd mybook world to the power outlet and switch it on, dont forget to connect lan cable from wd mybook to router. How to fix bricked wd my book world edition white light or. Apr 19, 2017 the drives web ui username and password should have reset to admin, admin. I can connect fine from any xp or 2003 system with no problems at all. Install cifsutils, which provides support for crossplatform file sharing with microsoft windows, os x and other unix systems. Aug 01, 2016 i have the wd my book world edition ii, however it doesnt seem to want to play with windows 10. Turn wd mycloud into a nextcloud box nextcloud community. Im not entirely sure if older pcs can support really big hard disks. From there, you will be able to update to the current available 02. Hello, recently i found an old nas wd mbwe 2 in basement and i wanted to repair it. Remove mionet from mbwe device do not install mionet on your pc, it is causing problems, slows down the device and unless you want to share the device over internet, it is not worth it.
Hello, i recently purchased a wd my book 4 tb usb 3. I have been able to use smb to access the public directory but not any of the private directories that i have created from the windows client. Apr 16, 2010 my book world edition 1 my dad installed this on our network and i tried to access it. May 20, 2009 wd currently offers two versions of the wd my book world edition. You can also access the web interface by typing wdmycloud. You can try a power strip or ups but if you have problems with the drive, try connecting it to a wall outlet. Solved wd my book world edition nas not showing up on my pc. These are my experiences setting up the wd mybook live up using linux ubuntu. Recover data from my book world edition a friend of mine has had a western digital my world book network attached 500gb storage device. I have a wd my book world edition 1tb of which ethernet connection point is not working so is there any way i can connect with the usb provided at back side of. Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
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