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Step-by-step: 2.0TB Western Digital disks, WD20EARS-00MVWB0
As the 2.0TB Western Digital disks, WD20EARS-00MVWB0, which are now available via Amazon and other retailers are not yet on ReadyNAS' hardware compatibility list, I wanted to post this step by step sh...
As of April 6, 2013, WDIDLE3 v1.05 is also available on the Ultimate Boot CD v5.2.1 iso image at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/index.html.
The "Customizing UBCD" section of the website also gives instructions on how to make a bootable USB thumb drive. I believe, however, that "making" the thumb drive requires one to extract the files from the iso or burn the image to a CD and then access the files normally through a file explorer. I just used UNetBootin as described in the original instruction of this thread. When UNetBootin got to the very end of the process, it tried to overwrite some of the UBCD files with its own files. I simply said "No". The thumb drive booted fine and I was able to use WDIDLE3.
Note: At first I could not *see* my Western Digital drive with the command WDIDLE /R. Then I realized that I had the drive connected to a different SATA port that requires the installation of an aftermarket driver. After switching to an SATA port that was accessible through DOS, I had no troubles.
The "Customizing UBCD" section of the website also gives instructions on how to make a bootable USB thumb drive. I believe, however, that "making" the thumb drive requires one to extract the files from the iso or burn the image to a CD and then access the files normally through a file explorer. I just used UNetBootin as described in the original instruction of this thread. When UNetBootin got to the very end of the process, it tried to overwrite some of the UBCD files with its own files. I simply said "No". The thumb drive booted fine and I was able to use WDIDLE3.
Note: At first I could not *see* my Western Digital drive with the command WDIDLE /R. Then I realized that I had the drive connected to a different SATA port that requires the installation of an aftermarket driver. After switching to an SATA port that was accessible through DOS, I had no troubles.
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