Hello all,
I recently bought a My Book 1230 4 TB and want to replace the internal WD Green drive with a Red one, because it will be running 24/7.
I know that my warranty will be void and that this procedure is not recommended.
However after replacement, the drive shows up in Windows as My Book 1230, but with 0 KB storage. In drive manager it shows up without partitions and Windows wants to create a partition-table, which fails.
I tried different methods to bring it back to life:
- I mirrored the old to the new drive 1:1.
- I partitioned the drive manually and cloned the first partition 1:1.
- I installed the WES-driver and the WD Quick Formatter on my machine in order to delete and format the new drive according to WD policy.
- I googled for the PCB to see, if it has a reset-jumper (the PCB has a few jumpers without pins, but I don’t know which is the correct one).
None of the above brought the desired results.
The old Green drive is untouched and it works.
I hope some of you guys can help me.
Wurstbrot