WD mycloud Gen2 hard drive replacement and initialization
1. Get linux bootable image like https://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/sysresccd-x86/3.8.1/systemrescuecd-x86-3.8.1.iso/download 2. Rufus portable for linux image writing for usb drive. https://rufus.ie/ 3. Download uImage and uRamdisk files and copy them to USB drive. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVRXllYjY5RG1CZEU 1) Developing/uImage-wdrecovery 2) Developing/uRamdisk-wdrecovery 4. Plug in USB drive and turn on PC with pressing boot select mode button. 5. Select GUI mode. 6. To make initialize hard drive, run gparted. 7. Delete all partition of hard drive (Be aware of right device path /mnt/sda or /mnt/sdb or /mnt/sdc i.e. my case was /mnt/sdb ) 8. Go back to terminal, then type follows: > parted /dev/sdb parted> mklabel gpt parted> mkpart primary 1049kB 2149MB parted> mkpart primary 8591MB -1MB parted> mkpart primary 7517MB 8591MB parted> mkpart primary 2149MB 3222MB parted> mkpart primary 3222MB 4296