Ever wanted to take apart your Western Digital My Book enclosure If you also happen to think that the drive inside that enclosure runs too hot, this. How to fix bricked WD My Book World Edition White Light or install brand new disk I bought brand new WD Caviar Green hard disks and put them into My Book World Edition II White Light case but surprisingly it doesnt work or even start Only top LED is blinkingflashing and MBWE doesnt appear in my network environment Similar situation is with. WD My Book World Edition I White Light or with my previous HDD that has stopped working. How to recover or rebuild firmware of bricked WD My Book World Edition White Light or installreplace brand new hard disks Also following questions will find here their answers Which disk to buy for WD My Book World Edition White LightHow to increaseupgrade WD My Book World Edition White Light capacity to 3. TB MBWE I or 6. Q I am unable to set my WD mybook world edition white light for time machine. TB MBWE II How to downgrade WD My Book World Edition White Light firmware version How to clean personal data completely erase to the factory defaults WD My Book World Edition White Light in purpose of sale Whats going on If suddenly your MBWE stopped working, firstly decode your MBWE situation by LEDs stateaction and refer to the My Book World Edition User Manual on page 1. LED Indicators. Maybe nothing serious happened there but only something unusual. Anyway, MBWE is booting from NAS OS written on disk, so you cant start MBWE with brand new clean disks orwhen your current disks has broken boot partition or master boot record MBR. There is no user procedure provided by Western Digital to repair MBWE or start brand new disks. How To Fix Bricked Wd My Book World Edition' title='How To Fix Bricked Wd My Book World Edition' />You can only return complete MBWE with disks to Western Digital to recieve new one, if you have void warranty for warranty conditions see support. I couldnt agree with this, so I decided to make it on my own and here it is. This is linux bash script solution to restore MBWE White Light install firmware once again with a FACTORY STATE and CLEAN DISK Works with both MBWE White Light I and II with any size of disk even 3. TB HDD but only WD Caviar Green Be aware also that not all WD Caviar Green drives may be MBWE compatible see WARNING below for details. Designed to auto download install always the latest MBWE firmware directly from wdc. But you can also install any firmware since including ver. Ive tested on 2. If you encounter any problems with the latest version, just pick ver. MBWE management interface any time you want. Full install takes less than 1 minute excluding firmware download. In MBWE II only 1 disk needs to be prepared  the second one clean will be adopted by MBWE itself. Config with only 4 lines to adjust disk label, serial number, model type, MAC address. This solution WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DISK DATA, if you connect your old disk If you want to rescue data on bricked MBWE, contact Western Digital on wdc. Data. Volume partition and move them back to your new MBWE. This should be possible if you got MBWE I or MBWE II with RAID 1 Mirrored or JBOD array mode. In other case, you shoudnt do anything but call Western Digital if you care your data and you dont know what to do. Dont buy new WD Caviar Green disk without being sure this model works with your MBWEEven though some of the users report success with WD Caviar Blacks, I dont recommend them due to higher work temperatures than WD Caviar Greens. Bear in mind, that MBWE is passively cooled and excessive temp. HDD live or even damage MBWE electronics. REMEMBER If you buy new disks to your MBWE II, always take both disks of the same type and the same part production series due to RAID performance and conformance. Therefore, you should buy both disks from the same retailer at once at the same time. Quick How To. 1 Boot Ubuntufrom CDCDRWPen. DriveHDD. How To on ubuntu. Download Ubuntu section. NOTICE If you have problems with other linux distributionsversions simply use Ubuntu 1. I tested it. DO NOT USE ANY VIRTUAL MACHINE it can cause many additional issues. Wire your computerto the Internet wireless connection is often not possible due to lack of many Ubuntu CD Wi. Fi drivers and its not our goal to play with it here. Extract mbwe. tar. Extract Here on Desktop all files should be placed in folder mbwe  if not, correct this. If you pre downloaded firmware image manually, place it in mbwe folder and rename it to fw. Connect your hard diskdirectly to the computer, using SATA to USB adapter or any other hot plug way, e. Fire. Wire, e. SATA. Edit mbwe config. HDD and MBWE parameters DISKLABEL, MBWETYPE, MBWESERIAL and MACADDRS according comments. Open TerminalCTRLALTT and type cd Desktopmbwesudo bash. In order to recover data from WD MyBook and other NAS devices. Recovering Data from NAS Devices. Network Attached. I have the MyBook World Edition 2 and want to give this. MB My Book that I bricked trying to. Hacking WD MyBook World Ed. Create account or Sign in. Main. Forum Forum My Book World Edition white light WD White wont boot Started by. Инструкция подходит для NAS My Book World Edition I White Light и My Book World Edition II. WD_My_Book_World_Edition_II_4TB_USB_2_0_RJ451.png' alt='How To Fix Bricked Wd My Book World Edition' title='How To Fix Bricked Wd My Book World Edition' />Listen carefullywhat is Terminal asking you and obey its commands. If you need some screenshot hints, go to the Polish version. After Safe Remove diskusing Disk Utility click Safe Removal button, place it in MBWE bay any bay in MBWE II. Psx Emulator For Windows 7 64 Bit Free Download on this page. Remember to unplug MBWE from the wall electricity before. Plug MBWE to the walland wait 3. MBWE initialize and shuts down all LEDs go off. Then hold Power button for 3 seconds until bottom LED goes on and wait 3 minutes for MBWE to boot up. Then go through the first start procedure in MBWE web GUI provide MBWE IP address in the browser and log in as adminadmin. For MBWE I thats all. For MBWE II go further 1. Shutdown MBWEby holding Power for 3 seconds and wait untill all LEDs are off, then unplug from the wall and put your second clean disk in an empty bay. If your second disk contains any data or structure isnt brand new, you must wipe it out beforeunallocated space no partitions, unformatted. This can be done using Disk Utility. Power MBWE onand voil. Thats all folks. Regardless you had issues or not, please leave your feedback Your MBWE version MBWE I or MBWE II. Your hard disk description WD Caviar Green WD2. EARS or other. Your linux distroversion Ubuntu 1. Live CD or other. Your firmware installed automatically by script or downloaded manually ver. This will help maintain script validity and help people to resolve their issues.