Only way to fix WD My Cloud

Found a way to make WD My Cloud dependable. I’ll show you just how easy it is to turn this into something you can use and won’t crash anymore.

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[dreambeard]

This is the way! Title is 100% accurate. THE only way to fix... I wish I knew before loosing my weekends typing commands.

[NM-Collection]

Totally regret buying this piece of crap. Your solution is the best fix I could ever find.

[JacobSchantz]

Thank you for the upload. I dusted my old drive off after a few years, and this seems like the only solution left.

[jslearner]

Thank you for saving me hassle. After watching this I will look for a different cloud storage system.

[DanMcCormick-xixs]

This is an awesome video and a complete solution for what has been a very frustrating journey with my WD MyCloud 8TB over many years. I have purchased a new SATA USB box today which offers a lot more options than the original WD box. NICE WORK! THANK YOU :)

[peteandtessTube]

Yours is the best video on YouTube as to how to disassemble and reuse the WD MyCloud Hard Drive. I was thrilled until the very end when you said that I may not be able to access the data once the drive is inserted into the usb connection case. Of course it’s the data, 40 years of photos, that I uploaded that is what I want to salvage but it appears that this physical removal might be my only hope. MyCloud, after last weeks update, simple says Device Off Line and nothing I have done, the whole reboot protocol including a soft reset, has any effect. I’m going to order the Hard Drive Enclosure, RSHTECH USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 3.5 inch SATA I/II/III HDD SSD Up to 16TB Support UASP (Black) from Amazon and give it a try. Like everyone else in your comments I will Never Trust a WD NAS again! Thanks again for your Video!

[HowardCodes]

This is exactly what i'm about to do today. Tired of dealing with the crappy software on this thing and I will Never buy another WD Mycloud again to be honest.

[Fantabiscuit]

What I especially about this video is the comments. I found my community. I am not alone

[rygonn]

My cloud sucks. Horrible investment. Thanks for the help

[bigkahunauk]

You could create a virtual linux machine on a Mac or Windows to view all the partitions and recover your data before wiping. You should be able to mount the drive from Linux. The MyCloud will have a number of small partitions but one large terabytes sized one with your actual data.

Love the ending to your video 😛

[fazer]

thank you so much... last 3 days ı was trying to fix my same device and gave up. I'll do this.absolute solution :) not worth for deal

[myxasd]

U got the like allready before watching the video ^^

[rygonn]

I just flashed Linux to a flash drive and was able to use as an optional startup OS so I could access the Mycloud 4 TB. It wasn’t hard. I bought an external hard drive reader and wala..

[Waldo_Ilowiecki]

I totally agree with you. I've been dealing with this shit for several years. I fucked them in the trash. People! Don't buy that shit. My letter to wd: I bought WD Cloud from you a long time ago, I used it to back up my computers from time to time, until the red light appeared. I had a lot of problems with your device: login problems, the device did backups for three days, etc. In retrospect, I rate it as a piece of shit. It's total shit with interface shit, communication etc. It's counterintuitive, hard for a layman to master. I tried to resuscitate them by taking apart and inserting a new disk. Unfortunately, I did not find on the network how to format a new disk on apple devices, because that's the only one I have. I fucked them trash and bought Synology. Finally, I'm at peace and everything works as it should. How can you sell this shit? You earn unfairly and your software engineers are morons.

[thebeaconprojectco]

Question; I'm worried about losing the work on the current drive after transferring it to its new enclosure. If I had to reformat it after this process would I lose what I have on that drive?

[manxusa]

I bought the twin drive EX version only a couple of weeks ago... utter crap. Keeps falling off the network and is unreachable. It was all set up correctly and can only be accessed by internet. Avoid these devices at all costs and buy something else.

[rygonn]

You can download Linux and save to a flash drive. There’s other videos showing how to do it

[_its_ish_]

This was the biggest waste of money.. I regret buying this crap.

[madanv]

Thank you so much, your information help me to save the data and reuse the disk.

[robbie]

My WD mycloud 4tb has did red light. Would your solution with in my case? It won't reset it anything just goes to red light.