Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Summary:

yesterday my book was offline, light of ethrnet was turned off. I restarted but ethernet doesn't work. Seems OS doesn't start.

Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 24 Aug 2008 19:26

Some one can help me.
Ethernet doesn't work: led is off and MBWE is out of the network.
Blue light of power button is off.
HD works but seems OS doesn't start.
I have restarted more and more times but nothing is changed.

There is something that I have to do or someone have some ideas?
Can I access to HD in other way?

I need your help. Thanks in advance.

Claudio
Italy

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

(account deleted) 24 Aug 2008 19:33

Your simply bricked your Mybook, follow the Rescue Procedure to make it work again

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 24 Aug 2008 20:51

Thanks but I have only a laptop.
If I have understand well I need a Linux Desktop PC and a SATA cable to connect it to motherboard. Is it true?
Anyway, when I will connect HD to a PC am I able to backup/recovery all data before run rescue procedure?

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

servo 25 Aug 2008 03:43

Yes, you can.

Yous files are located in the Directory /shares/internal/PUBLICO

or any other Folder you make

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 25 Aug 2008 06:06

OK, I am at work now but I have HD with me.
I have connected HD of MBWE on my Windos XP and I can see on Device Manager the new hard disk.
But I am not be able to see HD on Windows Explorer.
How can I solve this constraints?

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 25 Aug 2008 12:03

I have solved. Now I am running backup from WMBE HD to PC HD.
But I have a problem, I haven't a linux machine, only wnidows.
In which way I could run rescue procedure?

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

(account deleted) 25 Aug 2008 14:36

run it by any Linux liveDistro whatever, then you can use an USB stick to do the stuff, i've done it this way, Ubuntu had denied the access to /dev/sd* so use something else

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 26 Aug 2008 10:32

Could you tell me where I can find the linux livedistro for usb stick?

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

alephsmith 26 Aug 2008 11:00

Ubuntu can be booted from USB stick. Instructions are located here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

kevku 26 Aug 2008 11:11

you can also try system rescue cd http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick#step-02:_Copy_files_from_the_CDRom_2

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 26 Aug 2008 11:47

what you are talikng about?
Sorry but I have not Linux machine, only windows.
Someone could eplain to me how I can run rescue procedure for my MBWE?

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Aspirin 26 Aug 2008 13:07

MBWE has a Linux operating system and therefore cannot talk to Windows. You need to boot your Windows PC/laptop into Linux (from CD, VM or USB drive) and then run the rescue procedure which is detailed on this site. If your OS knowledge is limited I think you may struggle to be honest.

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/rescue-procedure

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 26 Aug 2008 18:46

My reality is this.
I have only laptop.
HD of MBWE has SATA connection
In which way I can connect this HD to my laptop?
Perhaps tomorrow I can have a external box with SATA cable and I could be able to connect it via USB.
But I don't know if starting my laptop with Live Linux CD (for example ubuntu, debian, mandriva, ecc.) will be possible to recognize via usb the MBWE HD.
If yes, probably I will run rescue procedure but surely will be the first time I run these steps in this condition and I need help from people with much more skill than me.
Anyway, if someone have just runned a similar rescue procedure he could be explain the steps?

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 07:05

I've tried to install my 500gb drive in a pc system, but i can't still recover the data…

Help please.
All i want is my data. As soon as i recover it the disk will go to the trash…

using the fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00007c00

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 4 369 2939895 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 370 382 104422+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3 383 505 987997+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb4 506 60801 484327620 fd Linux raid autodetect

It heats as hell and only works while is cold.

I'm very bad in linux things, it'll have to be a step by step guide.

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

alephsmith 30 Aug 2008 07:35

a) Connect the drive to your linux system.
b) Mount the drive as ext3

mkdir /media/mybook
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb4 /media/mybook

You should now have full access to all your files in /media/mybook. If get permission errors once the drive is mounted try:

chmod -R 777 /media/mybook

Post back if you get stuck

PS if you are truly going to throw them away, would you consider sending them my way if I pay postage?

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 09:20

It's worst than i expect…
The mount gives this:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd4,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I'm getting a little desesperate…

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 09:33

$ fsck.ext3 -y -f /dev/sdd4
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
fsck.ext3: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks…
fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block trying to open /dev/sdd4

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

Last edited on 30 Aug 2008 09:34 by Xameco Show more

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

alephsmith 30 Aug 2008 10:13

Firstly, is that copy and pasted? fsck.ext3 -y -f /dev/sdd4 note the typo sdd instead of sdb.

If it is a typo, have you tried specifying your backup superblock?

e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sdb4

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Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 10:21

i've pluged another drive to copy the data in the my book, that's why the drive changed…

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 10:21

sudo e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sdd4
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck: Dispositivo ou recurso ocupado ao tentar abrir /dev/sdd4
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?

Now it's like this:

Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00005e4a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 4 369 2939895 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 370 382 104422+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdd3 383 505 987997+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdd4 * 506 60801 484327620 83 Linux

$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdd4 /media/mybook -- "worked", now i can see the disk contents in the desktop
It don't shows all the folders i had there :(
I tryed to copy what i could but it gave me lots of errors
The disk stops responding if not in use for a while, and it heats a lot.

Last edited on 30 Aug 2008 10:31 by Xameco Show more

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 10:36

Damn, some of the folders shows up as applications??????? application/octet-stream

And then, after it didn't copy anything at all, just stoped responding
it even don't appear with the fdisk -l, i have to turn it off and then on again to show up

Last edited on 30 Aug 2008 10:41 by Xameco Show more

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

alephsmith 30 Aug 2008 10:42

So did the fsck.ext3 throw up any errors? it sounds like your drive is corrupted. Maybe your data will never be accessible.

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 11:11

It's giving lots of errors, i used the -y option, because there are too many errors.
Don't say that, there's all my live in that drive…

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 30 Aug 2008 11:13

Error reading block 34865409 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read). Ignore error? yes
Force rewrite? yes

This the kind of error that is giving me.

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Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

alephsmith 30 Aug 2008 12:53

It sounds like you are still having problems with your superblock, try setting another superblock.

Have a look at this post http://linuxgazette.net/issue32/tag_superblock.html , you may like to dd a backup of the drive so you can experiment a little before destroying the drive.

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 02 Sep 2008 23:21

I quit, i gave the almost "brick" to someone who really knows something about linux to try to recover the data. I'll never buy again a WD drive, thats for sure.

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

VanGogh 16 Sep 2008 12:55

Seems I have the same problem.
I have backuped all the data and try to run rescue procedure many time but I have the same message (superblock)

But anyway. I would like to try another time with other method but I need support from you.
Someont have the capabilites to backup with ghost image the entire 500GB MBWE?
If yes and if I can have this ghost image I can try to restore this into my hard disk.

I repeat, I try with many distro of linux but I have problems.
I am agree with Xameco… I'll never buy again a WD drive….

Re: Power on but Ethernet doesn't work and blue lights is off (500GB)

Xameco 27 Oct 2008 18:43

I did it, i've recovered all my data.
I never quit so easily.
I tried all kinds of programs, in Linux and in Windows. Then i found a program for windows that recovered all, but all the data from the disk.

I'm talking about "EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6". This is THE SOFTWARE.

http://www.easeus.com

I'm very happy now.
I repeat, I'll never buy again a Wester Digital Disk Drive, and i'll say it to all my friends to not buy drives from WD.
My disk is a piece of my private computer museum, side by side with my rusty Seagate ST-157A, my first hard drive, (Sleep in Peace!!!).

Last edited on 27 Oct 2008 18:45 by Xameco Show more