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themaddoctor / linux-mybook-tools

tools for opening some encrypted WD My Book drives in linux
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Compatibility with My Cloud? #8

Open whaaa opened 6 years ago

whaaa commented 6 years ago

Hi there, first of all thank you for your work and helping people in such a messy situation out. I am not really familiar with GitHub so I apologise in advance if I'm contacting you in the wrong place. Anyway, as per the title, may I ask would this be useful for a WD My Cloud 4TB model? I have some basic technical know-how to install linux on an external drive, but that's about it. I gave the paper you posted on the WD forum a shot to no avail, and would gladly supply additional information if you need it. It sucks that WD tells people to get an identical enclosure, which essentially is to hand them more money, to deal with problems they left there in the first place. EXT4 is, of course, the go-to option for a NAS; but for a consumer device, it really should be accessible in some way even if the board fails, which does not include telling people to get a new identical unstable product from them because they won't sell the board alone. Thank you in advance for your help and have a nice day :)

themaddoctor commented 6 years ago

I think the NAS's are not encrypted and use ext4 with a large block size. Because of the block size, you need fuse-ext4 to mount it in linux.

If you want to know for sure if it is encrypted, connect the bare drive with a nonWD enclosure or via SATA to your linux machine and dump the first 2M: sudo dd if=/dev/sdX count=4096 of=start.bin Replace sdX with the correct name of the disk, and post the output here.