WD MyBook Live 2TB dead!? [ Edited ]

[Prof_Hick]

Hi,

my MBL {@Mac with OSX 10.7.4) did make problems from the first day: The front light didn't show (any color), sometimes it was found in the sidebar under the name "NASHoe" (which I gave it), sometimes "NASHoe-", someimes "nashoe", sometimes with all three names at the same time!

This moday it's GUI told me there was a new firmware to upgrade and I pushed the install button. It started to download and update, then aborted and restarted. Since then I didn't show in the drives list, It didn't show by searching for it in the servers list, I can't connect it via FTP (SSH had been anabled) and of cource I could not contact it via GUI (neither with its IP nor symbolic address).

I tried to do a reset (reset button on its back), I tried to reinstall the WD-Software, I contacted the support (they only told me the things I did befor or things I first have to buy a Windows PC to do them). Nothing worked.

There is some data on the drive but at this time I don't care about that. All I want is to do a reset and clean install and be able to use the MBL as NAS again.

So, what can I do???

Thx

Stefan

[Alucardx23]

Seems like the firmware did not installed correctly, if you don't need to recover any information is better for you to replace it then.

[Prof_Hick]

The drive is about one year old ... replacing means: discard the old drive and buy a new one??

[Myron]

I thought the MyBook Live has a three year warranty?