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Western Digital My Book World Edition mount issues

Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this. A recent electrical storm and a series of power surges made our Western Digital NAS nic no longer work. This has been an extremely valuable...

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Uups, i set wrong shell passwd file for root

Ups, I setup wrong shell for root user. Default is /bin/sh, and i want switch this to bash, installed bash but write /etc/passwd file: root:… .. …/root:/bin/bash Right shell line: /opt/bin/bash no i...

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Impossible to Unlock WD my book duo !

Hi, you shall go to western digital support since your drive is quite new.

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How to delete id 12345678 (Mionet created ) folders

Hi there and Happy Chirstmas! I am selling my MBWE 500 GB white drive … I've enabled SSH access and want to tidy the MBWE drive by deleting the 'id 12345678' folder But I can't find it in the file...

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Need Help on My Book World Edition

Hi My Book World Edition is not turning on so decided to remove it from the existing case and plug it in as an ext HDD to my computer running Ubuntu. I tried to mnt the drive but I am getting this...

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Is this the end of the line for my WD MyBook Live?

Update 2022.10.07: Never mind, after extensive testing of the disk with smartctl and badblocks with no errors found, I am now fairly confident that the errors originated from failing electronics or...

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Case failure?

I have two, My Book World 2's—one is working fine and the other is not. I swapped the drives in them and it seems the casing for one of the units has gone back. When I power it up, I see just the...

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How to copy data from default drive to larger drive?

I'm about to exchange the default 1TB Cavier Green with a 4TB WD RED. Question: how can I copy all data from 1TB to 4TB, while preserving timestamps and all other attributes? I tried using the WD Copy...

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New to the Thread

I am wanting to return mybook world edition Blue light to factory default. Wipe it and back to factory default. Are the rescue files still available? I cannot find them anywhere. Thanks

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