Replace hard drive in MyBook World blue ring

[GoofyGoober]

Hi all,

i have an old MyBook World blu ring, single drive, it was the 500gb version, the hard drive was removed a few years ago an now is missed, but bot the enclusure and the hard drive was working good.

My problem is, can i buy another hard disk and put it into the MyBook World enclosure? What is the procedure to follow?

Thanks in advance

[Alucardx23]

Don't now if it will work for the single drive model, but on page 43 of the manual you can see the steps to format  a new hard drive.

http://www.wdc.com/en/library/usb/2779-701026.pdf?wdc_lang=en

[Vadir]

The 500 GB is a single drive, it is not user serviceable and do not accept upgrades.

[GoofyGoober]

So what i can do with the Mybook enclosure? Nothing?

[CityTop]

Yes, I think you can:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Restore-the-Software-on-a-MyBook-World-Edition-Har/

I plan to use this method for replacing  the 500 GB harddrive in my MBW edition (blue rings, single drive) with a larger disk. I already have a Ubuntu partition in my Mac which makes it easier, but this is not necessary: Ubuntu will run fine from a CD.