Hi,

My 1Tb WD My Book World NAS has stopped working. (Won't power up)

I've stripped out the hdd (its a WD10EACS 3.5" sata caviar drive). (I am hoping that this hdd is OK)

When I setup this WD NAS ""MANY"" years ago I choose within the original installation software to use it as a simple 1Tb drive with NO Raid.

Tommorow I intend to pop it into a spare Ubuntu 14.04 PC.

Any advice? will be able to recover/see the file structure or am I missing something?

Any thing special I need to install from the repositories Etc.

Thnaks in anticipation.

A good idea should be before you try to recover any data:
1. fdisk -l
2. maybe any raid level

Yes your right first I should run fdisk to see whats there.

I'm 99% certain that I didn't choose any RAID when I originally set it up so I guess the hdd will be RAID 0

What I don't know/understand is whether WD did anything "special" to the hdd or whether it will simply be there.

I've never heard of a single disk raid. Even with two or more partitions you've only one set of read/write heads. If the disk fails your data's toast!
You'd need two disks minimum for RAID 0; a mirrored pair, one disk fails, read from the mirror.

Play Bonny!

(wrong terminology) I totally agree with you.

I've had this NAS running for years in my attic and I has never been a major part of my storage network.

Never really took much interest in it when I set it up.

What I do remember is that there were 3 volumes or shares on it and WD had some proprietary software running to initally set it up.

I'm suppose what I am asking is what would I expect to see when I connect it up.

I've got an old Iomega Home Cloud 2Tb nas which, according to their forums, can be mounted with Linux (The removed internal disk that is) though I'm not sure what file system is used as it's effectively been running from an embedded ARM system.

The forum says you can't mount the disk under Windows but you can using Linux so I'd expect to see your three "volumes" plus the OS partition. Don't really know more than that.

As an asides, my Iomega nas, now owned by Lenovo/EMC, advised a firmware upgrade to patch the Shellshock vulnerability. All went well except the disk could no longer be seen on the network. Loads of people complaining - no way to downgrade. The forum reported that he Lenovo/EMC help desk were useless saying "Because your drive is out of warranty we can't help you" Nice one! Which is why some guys were removing the drive to try and recover their data. Best/worst Catch 22 of a firmware upgrade I've ever come across!

---ooOoo---

The Iomega work round, for anyone who wants to know, was to power down the nas, unplug from the network, re-power up and wait for one minute after the boot started (white led starts flashing, so 50 flashes approx) then reconnect to the network. Back and visible! As it's a nas I don't power it down so it should be OK, it'll probably fail again if rebooted though.

Play Bonny!

I have found this informative hread/article which may help others........ Gets better furher down the thread.

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum...ion-nas-device

Not sure if links are allowed here so here is it again but broken up a bit

ht tp://mybo okworld.wiki dot.com/fo rum/t-90514/how -to-recover-dat a-from-wd-my-boo k-world-editio n-nas-devi ce (remove the spaces)

Waiting for my USB to SATA adapter to arrive.

Here is how to get at your data from a failed 1Tb WD My Book World (Blue Ring).

1. Connect the removed physical drive to USB port using whatever adapter you have and power up the drive.
2. sudo fdisk -l and indentify the WD drive eg mine was /dev/fdc4
3. sudo mkdir /media/xyz
4. sudo su
5. mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc4 /media/xyz

The WD Hdd taken from the WD My Book World Enclosure will now be visable in your file explorer program or terminal and you can see all your files.

Easy.....................