Re: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Which line did you comment out to try to preserve your data on sda4 ? (megadoz said we could skip zeroing sda4 partition not the mkfs.ext4) ##makefilesystem in freshInstall.sh : mkfs.ext4 -b 65536 -m...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Thank you for the link, it's good of you to upload it. Downloading now My device isn't bricked yet, but every day it gets a little closer. It's worth planning ahead I think.
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
@jonj678 : In that case you could have made a backup-up of the firmware file installed in your MyBook Live at : /CacheVolume/updateFirmware.deb that's what I did. PS : there is a specific MyBook Live...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Hi Guys. I do not speak much English but I have the same problem that some of this forum: My MBK 2TB stopped working. (probably because it suddenly disconnected.) The fact is that I have removed the...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Sorry - I wish I could remember. It was getting late at night and at one point I stopped taking notes.
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Thanks, it worked!! My MBL is back to life…lost all the files on it, but it's back!!! thanks
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Did you try to keep the data on : http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-317579/complitly-debricking-guide-draft#post-1027553 We need to have a return on that to help improve the "How to". It seems...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Yes, I tried. At first I commented out both ##makefilesystem in freshInstall.sh : mkfs.ext4 -b 65536 -m 0 ${disk}4 ##zeroing in partitionDisk.sh : dd if=/dev/zero of=${disk}4 bs=1M count=32 then tried...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I think you made the wrong choice : Zeroing means deleting all you datas, and replace them by zeros. You should have commented this line. ##zeroing in partitionDisk.sh : #dd if=/dev/zero of=${disk}4...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I DID comment zeroing the the partition and it didn't work out, sorry I didn't write correctly the previous post :-) In the first attempt I commented both, maybe something went wrong there and made...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Just for the reference: I fumbled with my MyBookLive's SSH settings, and was completely locked out from it. (I used both AllowGroups and AllowUsers in /etc/sshd_config; thought that it would work as a...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Hello there, firstly thank you for your help and work on this. I am completely new to Linux (as I am installing it now). As someone who is completely new to Ubuntu, are you entering the commands into...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Hey, I've followed this tutorial exactly maybe three separate times, and every time I haven't encountered any errors, however I'm still unable to get my Mybook Live 1TB to work… It doesn't get...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Looking at your logfile there seem to be a Pb with metadata level in mdadm create May be this link and the related forum could be of help : [http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-273769#post-1042634...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
It worked - thanks a lot! :D Basically, if anyone's getting the following error: mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and may not be suitable as a boot device. If you plan to store...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
As I wanted to recover my data that I explicitly made sure that I did not format /dev/sda4 nor zero fill /dev/sda4 # format the data volume file system #mkfs.ext4 -b 65536 -m 0 ${disk}4 #if [ -e...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Nice, can't wait to have a clear howto to do the same on mine. Thank you for your contribution
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
If I purchased a new 1TB Caviar Green hard drive, would following this guide allow it to work fine with the Mybook Live enclosure?
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
In my opinion you should be able to. I don't promise it, but yea. should. get a 2tb instead :)
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I created a script based on these ones. it does not erase the data unless you want to and works for me. http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-368098/debricking-script-that-can-keep-data I started a...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I lost my SSH Login, how can i send any commands to my book live?
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
there is a reset button on the back of mybook live. push this for a couple of seconds (till the light changes color) this resets the password to: root welc0me see page 111:...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Yeeehhaaw! Thanks to this great guide, i successfully de-bricked my 2TB "My Book" without losing a single bit of my files. THANK YOU ALL! My device suddenly died after a short power outage, i waited...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Hi, can you please elaborate more on how you were able to mount your drive using debugfs because I am dying to mount mine to recover the data I have there. Thanks in advance.
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I'm having some problems with this script trying to use sda when the drive I point it too is sdb. Can someone assist please. PS. The drive has been wiped clean and is unallocated (no partitions and no...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I was able to open it by entering: sudo debugfs open -b 65536 /dev/sdb4 No idea yet on how to recover my data… EDIT: Yeah i found it, using de rdump command, i was able to recursively dump a directory...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
First off, let me thank EVERYONE who's helped in this forum, it's been a huge help to me. While I was playing with my shiny new MBL, I partially bricked it and decided to do a full factory restore (I...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I need help please I'm getting this error error: expecting a partition type
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I need help please I'm getting this error error: expecting a partition type
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
1. Create the three .sh that are in the GP, as well as swap.c . - what it mean? When i start the script in the first line i have to see "Partition Disk: /dev/sdb", but i see only "Partition Disk:" and...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Hello I have tried to get the debugfs but it will not even recognize that anything is there. It tells me /dev/sda4: No such file or directory while opening filesystem what am I doing wrong?
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Hello everybody! I need some help with my book live. Struggling around one week with this nice device (as mostly of people here I'm a begginer and took a while to understand what every command does),...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I see a lot of suggestions… At the moment I have an idea regarding my problem. During my trys to restore the device I tryed many things, inclusive "zero"-ing first 3000 Mb of the disk. If I understood...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Can anybody make a copy of MBR of My Book Live 1 Tb (1 disk)? And I can get working my dead device. Please.
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
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:...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
SSH into the MBL DUO and issue mkswap /dev/md2 reboot
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
That is the raid swap partition On a factory MBLDUO if you run swapon -s You get Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/md2 partition 500544 896 -1
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
For the single drive MBL the command would be mkswap /dev/sda3 reboot These commands only need to be run from SSH if you have used the debricking scripts with the destroy flag as it messes up swap...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
MyBookLiveDuo:~# mkswap /dev/md2 /dev/md2: No such file or directory
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I've got MBLD with two disks. and comand "mkswap /dev/md2" shows me /dev/md2: "No such file or directory"
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Your first problem is that you used a MBL debrick script on a MBLDUO The MBLDUO uses a RAID swap. If you used the MBL script with the destroy flag, you have created a non raid swap partition on your...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
All - just wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone on this thread. Not only has it saved the MBL, but its given it a second chance at life with a new drive. Kudos to all involved. Casual question -...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Thanks to this great guide ! I have a little problem. 11. When dd is done, mount your filesystem mkdir /mnt/rootfs mount /dev/md0 /mnt/rootfs the output say Aspire-3810TZ:~/bash$ sudo mount /dev/md0...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
Hi guys, i have a MyBook Live since June 2012 and started malfunctioning after a upgrade i did from version 1.8 (i guess) to 2.4 the last one at that time. The issues where that it started to restart...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
It was not necessary to wipe your drive. That actually caused you more problems. Here is a guide for debricking you should use. Pay very close attention to the instructions...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
I have done that procedure too, what else can i do?
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
do it again. I did a debrick process 5 times before i finally got it right. There are a lot of little things that can go wrong. Read through the comments of other users and see if there are any things...
View ArticleRe: Complitly debricking guide (draft)
actually i have debricked this dev, but now my main problem is that, as the guide states, when i have to extend the data partition, when Gparted opens the disc, it has only one unrecognized partition...
View Article