Thread: Western Digital 'Worldbook' NAS

I have one, but I am not about to start playing to figure out how to trigger a hard drive format.

From memory there is a recessed reset button. There should be something about holding that in for several seconds while powering up the drive, maybe?

You are looking for something about ' factory reset' in either the manual or in google.

Goodluck.

Post again if you dont get anywhere and I will have a closer look

Pressing the recover button while powering up the device resets the admin user name and password to default without erasing shared folders or volumes.

Done that still wont let me at the old backup folder.

Held the reset button in for 30+ sec, did nothing



Martyn

I assume you have googled. Don't know anything about them personally but there is this website Hacking WD MyBook World Ed where you might get more help.

Check out the "trouble shooting" and the "forum" section.

I understand you forgot your password to the management on the Web interface is that correct?

If so did you set a password the default username was admin and the default password 123456

Might help

If you did the factory reset I presume it would of gone back to its default state of a raid 0 configuration.
Even if it was like this before the reset I think its lost but I may be wrong.
You might be able to remove one of the drives and try a recovery on a linux machine but it will be a long shot

Originally Posted by djam1

I understand you forgot your password to the management on the Web interface is that correct?

If so did you set a password the default username was admin and the default password 123456

I've reset the admin password to default, tried a couple of other thing to return the whole setup to default, but obviously so far haven't got the right one.

From my reading today - format across a network isn't going to work.

Originally Posted by djam1

If you did the factory reset I presume it would of gone back to its default state of a raid 0 configuration.
Even if it was like this before the reset I think its lost but I may be wrong.
You might be able to remove one of the drives and try a recovery on a linux machine but it will be a long shot

I'm looking at two options full format and wipe all data (the stuff I want I can copy off) or to delete the folder containing the old backups, this is where windows is asking for the password, I've tried to take ownership but it won't let me, I've tried deleting from within linux (not that I'm that profficient with Linux) but it gives me a message along the lines of 'not supported by backend'

Martyn

Finally worked it out.

Had to reinstall the mionet software, enable the drive to access the net go in through mionet and delete the backup files, talk about a PITA. Still it's done mionet uninstalled, net access revoked and just using it as a NAS drive again.

Still don't know how to format it though

Martyn