WD10000H1NC-00 upgrade to 2 TB WD20EARS

WD10000H1NC-00 upgrade to 2 TB WD20EARS

04v3 17 May 2017 00:05

Hi,

So… I've got the before-mentioned WD product & I want to upgrade its inner storage from the existing 1 TB Green (WD10EARS) to 2 TB Green drive (WD20EARS).

I already managed to get a dump of the mybook.img file off the existing working 1 TB version. Using the dd command in System Rescue CD 5.0.0. distribution I managed to successfully unpack/clone everything to the WD20EARS drive.

So how do I expand that unallocated space after sda4 in order to make the OS "see" 2 TB of space & not the default 1 TB ?

In the console I tried running the command:

mdam --grow -size=max /dev/md2

And it didn't work.

So I tried issuing command:

mdadm --fail /dev/md2 /dev/sda4

mdadm --remove /dev/md2 /dev/sda4

Also didn't work, so I didn't even bother with the followup commands.

Any advice on how to solve this ? Do you need picture references ?

Thanks,
Dave

Re: WD10000H1NC-00 upgrade to 2 TB WD20EARS

Matt01 19 Jun 2017 12:59

I have also been interested in doing this myself but I haven't got a spare 2TB hdd to test with.

I was thinking of looking at the php code for factory reset, see what scripts it runs to reformat the partition.

*edit*

I been looking in "SxM_webui\admin\tools\" and there is fullrestore.php wixMke2fs and wixResize2fs which look interesting.

wixMke2fs and wixResize2fs look like shell scripts but are encrypted which makes it hard to work out how it formats it.

Last edited on 19 Jun 2017 16:11 by Matt01 Show more