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bigpinkdragon286

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The WD My Book Live provides a network share, so you access it the same way you would access any other network share through your operating system. If you have not yet configured the device, you may need to do so. I know that it supports UPnP through Windows, I'm not sure about your Linux version however, so you could always find the network address for your device once it's plugged into your network and just use a web browser to access it's IP address. It should allow you to configure it that way.
 
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That's an elementary answer if you know that anything over 2.2 TB can't use a basic MBR and NTFS format. Higher than 2.2TB and it is a GUID and accessing through windows can't be done. It is a UNIX encoding through a Cat 5 connection on a firmware board. I need proper syntax in linux to copy the files and move them to another drive.
 
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bigpinkdragon286

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You're welcome anyway. Maybe you could have been bothered to specify what you wanted in the first place then instead of correcting rudely after the fact. :) Why are you attempting to educate me about MBR and NTFS formatting, as it's NAS and not a local drive, why do you even care what the formatting is?
 
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Not being rude dragon! If an NAS drive over 2.2TB then it's in a Linux format due to the GTP partition (ext3 & ext4). That's why asked for accessing in Xubuntu. The drive is out of the enclosure since the Net board in it is frozen up. Either a power spike or an interrupted update to the firmware.
 
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fzabkar

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If you are more comfortable with Windows, then you could try Linux Reader for Windows (freeware):

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

You might like to upload a hex dump of sector 0. In Windows you could use a disc editor such as DMDE, while in Linux you could use dd.
 
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You didn't think that information needed to be in your first post? You asked a question and dragon replied correctly and then you snap at him for not reading your mind. And, yes, your post came off as being rude to me also.

Since this is a 'How to use linux' question, I'll move this to our linux forums.
 
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Connect the disk to your Linux computer and mount the partition(s). You can use fdisk to determine what format the partition are.

Come on! - this is elementary stuff. Or is there yet more that you haven't told us?

Correction: Having read up on this external drive it appears that you can only read the disks in the enclosure, for various reasons. You need to repair the enclosure.
 
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Never used any type of linux. That's why the original question was "How do you access your data in Xubuntu?" My original description was I got power spiked, the drive was stuck, i couldn't access data and pulled the drive from the enclosure to hook it up to the mobo.

It may be elementary to you but if I asked you to thrust load a bearing on a high speed cetrifugal hydraulic pump you would probably ask how to load a thrust bearing on a pump, not how to set a pump in an enclosure.

Thanks for your time!

http://john-hunt.com/2013/04/25/recovering-data-from-a-wd-mybook-live-2tb-3tbor-similar/
 
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