MBWE Bricked or dead

MBWE Bricked or dead

h3xman 15 Nov 2010 23:01

Hi
I have MBWE 2TB (single disk) model WD2000H1NC. After installing optware and restart mybook is bricked or probably dead. When i plug in power the first light is powered and that's all … the power button is not functioning , not visible in network , not visible thru USB.

So i removed the HDD from mybook and connect to my spare PC with debian linux. I don't need backup so i tried to restore partitions
First i tried with the http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/rescue-procedure … I tried this 4 times with no results . i tried with backup images 500GB and backup images 2TB
Then i tried http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-23918/recovering-original-fw-tested 2 times and still no results
At last i tried to delete everithing from the disc and install as clean HDD http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/install-clean-hdd-in-white-light-my-book-world-edition
But in this guide ther is something wrong ….
in Step 1 it says

# extract gzipped image .tar.gz
 tar zxf ./fw.img

but when i try that i get error

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

and that normal because its data archive not tar.gz … so my question is how to unpack that ??
In Part2 from the same guide i see that i need some script upgrade1.sh but from where ?

So at last … can someone help me with this guide or to recover from img files ??

Re: MBWE Bricked or dead

(account deleted) 28 Nov 2010 19:47

Hi,

Did you decode the firmware like shown in step 1? You can not untar/gunzip it unless it has been decoded.
As for the upgrade1.sh, if you read the part again where it is mentioned you will clearly see that
you will not need it unless you want to know where all the disk offsets come from…

Also, take care that the guide is for 1TB hdd's only (see end of part 3 about the MBR…)

Blip