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Western Digital My Book World Storage Disaster Recovery Fruitless Entre. Long gap from my last blog post, busy with work and truth be told, Ive been waiting for something interesting to write about. As I wrote in my initial post, I intended to cover a wide range of topics ranging from Travel, Music, Books to Technology. This past week turned out to be extremely interesting on the technology front as my home data storage solution crashed. My Home Storage Solution. Ever since I went digital for all my music, movies photos, in 2. I had intended to invest in a NAS solution for home, having relied on external USB HDDs until then. So about 3 years ago on one of my US trips, I invested in a Western Digital My Book World Edition with 1. TB storage. The good thing was that it came with inbuilt support for DLNA and, more practically, 1. V. For these 3 years I used this as the single point of truth for all my data, including backup of my office data, family photos videos and art work put together by wife kids. The one thing that I skimped on was not going for the 2 HDD variant, which was about 2x the cost and allowed for a RAID 1 mirroring or you could use it as 2 separate disks. Back then I didnt plan for the data explosion went with the single drive 1. TB version. The solution itself was very simple, cost effective and served the main purpose very well. The My Book World was connected directly to the Wireless Router on LAN, had a dedicated IP with rest of the devices being on a custom DHCP range. The only trouble was that my Entertainment system was in another room so I had to rely on wireless access for access to the data. That was easily solved by adding a wireless adapter to my Xbox 3. Once that was done we switched to Xbox for viewing all our home videos onto the TV. Running around with USB memory sticks became pass. It was so simple that even the kids could use it on their own and on weekdays when the TV was boring they would stream their favourite cartoons from the video collection stored on the Book World. Disaster Last Sunday all of this changed. I had painfully digitized 1. VHS tapes into DVDs and ripped those onto the Book World. Two of those DVD rips came in at about 1. Gigs and immediately after I finished copying those to the Book World, there was a power outage. When power retuned the Book World wouldnt power on, the white light would climb up to a 3. I tried various combination of tricks but it just wouldnt boot. I was thrilled to note that Western Digital has a local support centre in Bangalore, I promptly called them on Monday. Only to learn that they only deal with products under warranty and my gear was 3 years old. Nevertheless, they took the serial number and registered me as a customer before telling me to go awayThey do not undertake any repairs, only replace the product itself So if you have a new Western Digital product with precious data, you are going to be out of luck With the support centre out of the way, it was clear that I was going to have to try some stunts on my own. What follows below is a step by step. Recovering data from your Western Digital My Book World. First things first what youre about to do will void any product warranty. Do this only if you have no other legitimate way to get to your data. Ok Lets get to it. Take Apart the Western Digital My Book World Enclosure. The folks at Western Digital know how to pack their gear A quick look at the case will show you that there are no screws and no user serviceable way to get to the disk drive. The only way to do it is to arm yourself with a screwdriver and pry open at the Top. The casing is clipped on the inside to a steel frame. A few of these clips tooth will definitely not survive the prying and will snap, dont be alarmed. Here is a You. Tube Video that you will find useful, start at 1 1. Once inside, you will find a 1. TB Western Digital Green Caviar drive or similar and 3 screws holding the board to the disk drive. Take these off carefully. There will be 2 screws holding the disk drive to the steel frame. Unscrew those too. You will have to be careful in detaching the board from the disk drive since its a SATA drive with power data coming from the board. It is unlikely that you will assemble it back, nevertheless better to be safe right now. Once youve taken the whole thing apart you are ready to commence the data recovery process. Setting up the Data Recovery environment. You will need. Desktop computer no, a laptop will not serve the purpose. USB memory stick with 2. Farm Equipment And Instructional Manual more. GB or more free space. USB HDD or another storage that can be accessed on the Desktop, this will hold all the recovered files. Internet connection to download an 8. MB Linux image. A screwdriver set. Background. The hard drive you scavenged from your My Book World has at least 2 types of partitions, 1 used for booting the NAS and the rest that you created when configuring the NAS to store data. Quite likely it has 3 partitions named Boot, Download Public. Boot is using the ext. Windows natively. You can install any of the 3 utilities given below on Windows to read ext. Explore. 2fs. Disk. Internals Linux Reader. Ext. 2 Installable File System For Windows. The next step is to create a bootable Linux USB, which is a 2 step process downloading the Linux image and burning it onto the USB. For my effort, I went with Ubuntu 1. ISO to a local Downloads folder. Once the image has been downloaded get a copy of UNetbootin to make your 1. GB USB memory stick bootable. The good thing about UNetbootin is that it lets you download burn the image separately but if youre lazy you can have UNetbootin do both tasks for you at once. Here is a nice article on how to create a bootable USB stick on Windows. It will take a few minutes for the task to finish. Once the image creation is complete go ahead and turn off the desktop and open it up using the screw driver set. You will need to find a power data cable inside the desktop that can be plugged to the disk drive you scavenged from the My Book World. The connections should look like this. Now insert the USB Memory Stick and restart the machine. Ensure it boots from the USB stick that you just created. Note that you will have to change the boot sequence temporarily via F1F2F9F1. F1. 1F1. 2Esc on your keyboard or changing the boot sequence in the BIOS itself. After boot you should see something like the following screen there might be slight differences based on version Linux distribution you chose. Select the Try Ubuntu without installing option, NOT the Install Ubuntu option In a few seconds this should load up the Ubuntu shell, like the one below. That task bar on the left edge is called the Launcher, choose the first icon and type in Disks to bring up the Disks window. If youve connected things properly you should see minimum 3 Disks. The USB that you booted from. The disk drive on the machine itself. Pcmark 8 Full Crack Software here. The disk drive scavenged from the NAS. If youve plugged in a separate drive to store the recovered files that will be an additional 4th drive. In my case, the writing was on the wall for the scavenged drive DISK IS LIKELY TO FAIL SOON. Now click on the rectangle that represents the Volume which has your data and now the Device details devsdb. You will next mount this device as a folder inside Ubuntu. For this, go back to the Launcher and bring up the terminal application.